Well it has been waaay too long since I’ve had any time to consistently write in webpodge, but the time has finally come! After experiments in the wild (name any CMS, seriously I’ve tried my hand at all of them), I’m finally ready to settle down and get back to helping out my fellow web-entrepreneurs in our quest to quitting our day jobs and living off our websites/online business.

So some thoughts before I get started on the “real posts”.

OpenSocial is a bunch of hype. Seriously like a developer (yep, I’m one of them), is just going to ignore Facebook just because I have to change around my API call a bit. Most programmers that are working with widgets can handle a logic change for the 50M+ Facebook users.

OpenSocial is not just a bunch of hype, it’s going to destroy Facebook….well at least internationally it will. As Facebook continues to, fail, at crossing the seas with there social network Google just beat them to the punch. Partnering up with Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, and having their own Orkut is simply brilliant. In one fell swoop they cornered the international market, and as soon as those international users break out their wallets a bit more (last I checked us in the USA spend too much online compared to the rest of the world) Google is going to have be a very much a player in the social network space.

Ahh that felt good to write again. Look forward to starting up again my friends. Feel free to weigh in on your thoughts on OpenSocial in the comments below.

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