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So last week it was all Apple. This week it’s all Google. Word of the new OpenSocial platform is starting to spread. It is interesting to see how Google sticks to their “algorithm” strategy (it killed Jeeves!). Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg once said that he considered his site to be one of the top news sites on the web. It could be called that since it has a personalized feed of “relevant news” from your social graph. Here is the catch: facebook has taken the closed Microsoft-like style of doing business(if you had thoughts about their partnership). Unlike Google’s OpenSocial which is just a new protocol for context communication. The want to become a pathway for everybody to communicate and share (while using open standards). NO MORE FBQL(facebook query language?!?!?!). The web is the platform. Not meebo, not facebook, not myspace: Google is investing in the open web platform. They figure, they don’t need to control all the data (as long as they control the standard). So far facebook has taken the semi-open stance, where developers can import and develop for facebook, but the sweet user info stays inside their little(40 mill users) garden.

Mr. Zukerber BRING DOWN THIS WALL!!!!!

This whole social communication(not social network) thing is panning out to becoming the next wave of web dev. I am declaring it Web 3.0.(suck on that Calacanis)

Social Communication (according to me): Communicating in context. Using existing social graph connections for in-context communications. i.e. Instead of sending an excel spreadsheet, you would send a sharing notification, via social graph communication protocols. So if you don’t know someone email, but you’ve added them as a friend in facebook, the system would know how to delivery it. Sounds pretty cool huh?

I am hoping that Google can do it!

(ohh it’s also google week since the GPhone stuff is starting to heat up again…but who cares, now that the iPhone is selling well)