Comments on: Waiting for the OpenSocial Hammer to drop http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/01/waiting-for-the-opensocial-hammer-to-drop Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:09:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: dave mcclure http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/01/waiting-for-the-opensocial-hammer-to-drop#comment-244410 dave mcclure Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:31:12 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/01/waiting-for-the-opensocial-hammer-to-drop#comment-244410 good post. i don't agree with everything you have to say, but your perspective is reasonably argued and has merit. peace out, good post.

i don’t agree with everything you have to say, but your perspective is reasonably argued and has merit.

peace out,

]]> By: Alan Wilensky http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/01/waiting-for-the-opensocial-hammer-to-drop#comment-244379 Alan Wilensky Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:05:03 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/01/waiting-for-the-opensocial-hammer-to-drop#comment-244379 You always call the tune true, Piper Marc. Everyone was gushing over this or that open social standard.....the next Messiah! It never occurred to me that any two of them are just places and spaces for exerting leverage over users and the industry big players. So Facebook and Myspace are the Kings of the hill, and it takes a dataport.org style group (that seems so altruistic), to muster the resistance. Now we see there is no altruism at all. You always call the tune true, Piper Marc. Everyone was gushing over this or that open social standard…..the next Messiah! It never occurred to me that any two of them are just places and spaces for exerting leverage over users and the industry big players.

So Facebook and Myspace are the Kings of the hill, and it takes a dataport.org style group (that seems so altruistic), to muster the resistance. Now we see there is no altruism at all.

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