(Notice the use of “Social Web instead of Web 2.0 - this MUST be a great article…if you have no idea what I am talking about read previous posts about how Web 2.0 is not bad.)
This is a great analogy of some current technology to switchboards of the early telephone system. The article is called “Switchboard of the Social Web“.
Today’s social web operates in similar fashion to the initial system of “switchboards” during the early introduction of the telephone. Developers of applications have to “plug into” any given platforms application programming interfaces for the purposes of enabling the application to “communicate”…
Google’s recent announcement of OpenSocial is centered around creating a set of “standard API’s” that ultimately interface with all participating social networks. The spin of OpenSocial is centered around Open API thus automating interfaces rather than having developers create new interfaces for each network they want their applications to run on.
Very cool reference and easy to understand.
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