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Open Social to make life easier for new classes of social application?

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

Yesterday I posted about how Google’s Open Social could be a game changer for social networks - but they needed the big guys to play ball. This morning I read that Myspace and Bebo have joined the party.
Assuming that everyone follows through on their commitments to this pr ... Continue reading »

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willphipps
1 year ago

In the featured video on the open social page, there was no mention of how the app. developers can make money. I am assuming it's from google adwords on the canvas page, has there been any mention of this?

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nic
1 year ago

Will - I don't think that Google wants to get into the money making side of this. The idea is that people would monetise their apps in the same way as they would have before, but the apps will be better because they can combine data from multiple socnets.

Adsense will be part of that story for sure, and at current market share a large part, but I doubt Google will be trying to force that on anyone.

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