Nov 5th is Coming?

October 29th, 2007

I have been largely ignoring this whole Facebook phenomena because, well it seems like a fairly big long term dead end to me. When I heard that Brad Fitzpatrick was leaving Six Apart and going to Google. I became very excited. What Brad did with Open ID still hasn’t been fully realized, but it is such a good start. Applying this same level of openness to the social graph could be huge. There are few companies that could pull it off. Google is one of those companies. The rumor was that by Nov 5th they would be releasing something to prove it. There is now word on the street that Maka-Maka is the thing that is coming out of this work.

This sounds exciting to me. What Brad is pitching would be truly revolutionary. An API to let me develop on your platform is nice and thank you, but a standard that lets me use whatever platform I want is MUCH more appealing. Watch this space and get involved. The Web As A Platform seems be coming. In a nutshell, if you think you can get away with a closed API, platform and compete in this world, good luck! Sorry Facebook, you are doomed to fail long term until you get that! Thoughts?