thanks Sam! On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Samuel Rose <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi Sam,

I know you are busy, but just in case,

I'm looking for assessments of google+ and its openness, whether it's really becoming the 'interoperable social web' as some people are claiming etc ...

I have yet to see more than one discussion or exchange happen in my connection to Google+ despite thousands of invites to connect. It's the most populated place where not much at all is really happening online that I can think of! :)

However it is true that Google tends to support data portability (via user interface and API). Google also recently tends to err on the side of contributing to commons, which is how we ended up with open source etherpad, and open source version of Google Wave. Google Wave itself supported connection to "bot" programs (and access to google app engine), which in turn opened the application up to all sorts of interoperability possibilities. I assume this is still part of open source wave. So, by my reckoning Google Wave had real potential for truly being an "interoperable social web" application.

Google+ doesn't yet have a public API supported by Google.

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I have a /Google tag in my delicious with material,

any volunteers?

Michel

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