Ted Wallingford takes a shot at walled garden style social networks this morning with his call for a “social network infrastructure that allows many enrollment-based sites to be used with a common access credential”. That is, of course, what OpenSocial is trying to do, and to a lesser degree Facebook itself.
Still, I agree with Ted that the degree of interaction which Facebook demands of me in order to respond to application invitations is far more than I care to manage.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
