What does Google’s Open Mesh look like?
I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh.
So here is Appendix - A.
Most of the infrastructure, services and applications that Google offers work all by themselves and are not dependent upon anything else. Google has launched OpenSocial and built Google Friend Connect.
Google is a leader in OpenAPIs and keeping the data to themselves. So they have been very careful when providing APIs into social graphs or their Friend Connect service. We have a long way to go before OpenSocial’s APIs are done. They will eventually enable any software product to embed ’social features’ into any container, legacy app or content.
Imagine maps that know where your friends are, search that knows what your friends are searching for, Calendar, Reader and Gmail that use social features to organize your life.
Google’s grid, apps platform, iGoogle, YouTube and many other elements of it’s ‘platform’ will all become important pieces of the open mesh. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that they don’t have some over arching approach, as long as all the elements work fine by themselves.
Tags: Google, open mesh, underlying ID layer
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