It seem to me netvibes is planning to follow the wave of OpenSocial, not only just purely follow , they want to take a lead in this area. Example the apps that you create not only working in different social network through opensocial, at the same time through the Netvibes UWA, it will be able to spread to different platform – social widgets.

Another interesting thing is Netvibes’s next release  – Ginger which added quite a number of social features, does it try to be a social start page ? or this release is affected by OpenSocial ?

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i think there are many post about what is Open Social  , after i understand the basic idea of Open Social  , the first thing that pop in my mind , this sounds like Netvibes’s UWA (universal widget api ) ? We have the same problem on widgets, there are so many platform for widgets, UWA allow you to create one widget that able to run on different platform and you only need to learn one format.

Currently this is similar situation in social networking , because of facebook’s success , lots of social networking is going to release their own platform, if that really happen, developer will be damn busy. I think Google is hitting the web2.0 sweetspot again, lets see november release will give us what kind of surprise.

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