OpenSocial’s Failed Promise: Only 0.7% of Apps Have Crossed Networks (Updated)
When the Google-led OpenSocial campaign launched in October 2007 it aimed to give developers a common environment that application publishers could publish widgets to with one set of code, deployable across Google sites, MySpace, Hi5 and numerous other social networks.
A directory of OpenSocial Apps launched today and the reality is even further from that goal than we expected. Out of 12,456 apps listed, only 83 are running on two or more "containers." That's 0.7% or one out of every 1500. Update: See this reply below from Google's Kevin Marks. Marks says that cross-network presence was counted manually and is actually larger than it appears in the directory.
OpenSocial was intended to help everyone else keep up with the huge success of the Facebook platform. If there's one clear market leader, everyone else has a common interest in creating Read More...
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