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Weekend Fun: The OpenSocial Drinking Game
All this talk of Google’s OpenSocial networking initiative reminds me of college, where yelling “Social!” at a party meant everyone drank. Which, when you think about it is a pretty good analogy for what Google is doing. It yells “OpenSocial” and partners line up to guzzle the sweet widget Kool-Aid (Goog-Aid?).
Let’s remove the metaphor and make OpenSocial a straight up drinking game. Fire up the frat boys (also known as your company’s sales team) and follow these simple rules.
Take a drink:
- Every time a social network or app developer signs up, which, with 27 partners already could end the game quickly.
- When a crestfallen Microsoft realizes people are buzzing about “OpenSocial” not Zune’s “the social.”
- For every dollar above $700 Google stock hits.
- For every dumb vampire, werewolf, zombie, pie-throwing, super-poking FBML widget that you’ll never have to write again.
- Every time Google reminds you that Orkut is HUGE in Brazil.
- For every crappy emo band on MySpace who can now more easily inflict their pained junior-high lyrics across a multitude of networks.
- For every day Facebook holds out, patiently waiting for Google to call them and join the Open Social.
And finally, drown your sorrows when you realize the Google-Bot is now your god, and you bow before it. (Om recommends Bourbon for this segment of the drinking game.)
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The Microsoft Patent Threat… Why?
I admit, it is a little late to get to the most important story in tech - Microsoft’s not so subtle patent power play - but I needed to absorb it all. What Microsoft does with those 235 patents that open source products are infringing upon, remains to be seen. There are still two issues that the story raised…
First, for Microsoft’s very public approach indicates that open source is having a material impact on Microsoft.
Second issue is very aptly brought up by Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz on his blog.
“You would be wise to listen to the customers you’re threatening to sue - they can leave you, especially if you give them motivation. Remember, they wouldn’t be motivated unless your products were somehow missing the mark,” he writes.
Schwartz, tells the story of his own company’s decision to embrace open source, which you might want to read. I would love to get your thoughts on the why-the-patent-story question.
