Have to go off and compulsory vote today in our federal election. Not that our vote (in Western Australia) counts for much (that’s another issue). Anyway this entire cycle of voting every four and bit years for the federal government has got me thinking of the various cycles that life presents us with.
Now I am not a fan of Facebook and its closed garden of social networking, I tried it all out, I got bored, simple. I find the application just an endless spammer with notifications from zombies, to the colouring of someones dog’s left nipple. Frankly I just don’t want to know about most of it. My life is just way too busy for most of Facebook. I have also stayed away for the addictive games (sorry Kay) in Facebook as well, for good reason.
Well we knew it was coming, Google told us a few months back. So now we get to see the details of OpenSocial. The media have been all over this, here and here and finally here all a buzz that MySpace is in on it. OpenSocial is a method (API) which presents a standard way for developers to build widgets that can pull base information and functionality from an existing Social Network that you are signed up for and place it on another centralised Social Networking Site tha you tend to use. The bottom line with all this of course is that the information available is restricted at present to the very general such as:
There was the hype over the iphone. We have all hear or read about the iphone. I had the chance to play for a while with one at OZIA, thank you Stephen Collins. Okay it has a nice interface, it is very intuitive. It works well as the wifi based web browser platform or if you have a few video or music files that you want to play. As a phone, well it’s an out dated mobile using GSM EDGE technology, all very well and good in the US (the target market) not much good in the Australia.
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