A Frog in the Valley

We are doing an Open Social BOF at Barcamp Montreal today, here are my gathered from this week and are being discussed today :

Overviews and general info

Explaining OpenSocial to your Boss
Overview by Read/Write Web
Overview at Oreilly Radar
Overview by GigaOM
Partners
Six Apart about OpenSocial

The 3 APIS and developers ressources

• People and Friends data API
• Activities data API
• Persistence data API

Hosting OpenSocial apps
Dare Obasanjo weights in
Chris Messina adds the Address Book 2.0 perspective
Should Microsoft Join?

Other views and complementary info

Will Google “Friendster” Facebook?
Counterpoint…
50M Facebook users don't care about OpenSocial
It’s all about time
Details for the javascript developers
W3C Widget Requirement
OAuth
OpenID attribute exchange (Spec Draft 4)
Sxipper
Identity 2.0 presentation at OSCON 2005 by Dick Hardt

Accelerando by Charles Stross

Facebook Response?

Facebook Beacon
Facebook competing directly with popular apps?

[tags]OpenSocial, BarCamp, Montreal, BarCampMontreal3, API, OpenID, OAUTH[/tags]