VIC GUNDOTRA: To the developer, open social means
distribution, distribution, distribution.
A social application developer wants the easiest route to
reach the largest number of users.
And OpenSocial provides that opportunity.
NEIL WARREN: It opens us up to 200 million users instantly.
And we hope to capture a piece of that.
And any start up that even captures a small piece of that
is going to be way ahead of the game.
ALI PARTOVI: What OpenSocial enables is essentially a
common platform so that somebody who's trying to
create a social application can make it available in many
places with very little work.
In our goal to bring music everywhere on the internet, we
already intended to build I like on Orchid, I like on hi5,
I like on Ning, I lile on Myspace.
And thanks to Google, they've made it extremely easy for us
to do that by building something once and having it
just work in all those environments.
PAUL LINDNER: It really is going to mean that
applications will be able to move from platform to platform
to platform, which had previously been like islands
within a sea.
MARC ANDREESSEN: The great thing about Ning is there are
115,000 networks already on Ning growing rapidly.
Every single network that we have on Ning when we go live
with OpenSocial will have the capability to use Flixster or
any other OpenSocial compatible application.
JOE GREENSTEIN: OpenSocial's huge.
We were literally sort of planning out sort of a
development plan for the next 12 to 18 months, and a lot of
it was rebuild the same stuff more and more and more and
more on this network and on that network.
And so the new development plan is build it once and then
keep making it better.
ABER WHITCOMB: Today, the announcement is that Myspace
is standardizing this API on OpenSocial.
In fact, we actually intend to help make this the de facto
standard for developing apps on the web.
ALLEN HURFF: And now we can just continue to open APIs
like events, calendars, music.
And we can add that.
And then hopefully, if everybody adopts something
like music, it will become a standard as part of
OpenSocial.
Then we don't have to support it through our APIs per se.
It becomes more open for all people to use.
MALE SPEAKER: We were only told that Myspace was a
partner about 36 hours ago.
With that amount of notice, we actually have a fully
functioning application within a Myspace profile.
AMAR GANDHI: All the demos that you saw today, every
single one of those applications was
already using their API.
So that level of speed of developing features on a
platform that's sophisticated like Orchid is just
breathtaking.
JOSEPH SMARR: And because of these open standards of java
script and HTML and so forth, we already had the tools to
really plug it into our system.
So we're thrilled about it.
I think this is going to be a big deal for
developers and for users.
AKASH GARG: Within their social networks now, they'll
have access to a variety of applications across them.
And it will just make their experience
that much more rich.
ADAM GROSS: And we think that just as you in your personal
life might use some of the applications you've seen from
OpenSocial to understand what movies you might like, you can
use the same kinds of technologies to help make you
more productive every day in the tasks you're trying to
accomplish.
AMAR GANDHI: More users will find themselves wanting to
interact and kind of take their offline activities and
bring them online.
And they'll find all sorts of tools to actually make their
real lives better.
JOSEPH SMARR: So we've been trying to get people to
realize that these sites need to open up and need to
interoperate.
And OpenSocial just came along, and it's just this
perfect tool to help do that.
DAN SERFATY: I really think it's a revolution.
PAUL LINDNER: It's great news for the web tonight.