Comments on: Why We Need an Open "Like" Standard http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/ Sun, 26 May 2013 02:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hunch’s Redesign Puts It Right in Facebook’s Sights http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249085 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:17:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249085 [...] Dixon was recently involved in starting an open-source alternative to Facebook’s feature called Open Like). Facebook is already using user profile data to target advertising — and it could well be [...]

]]> By: The Semantic Web & THE POWER OF PULL » Blog Archive » Facebook Open Graph and the Web of Trust http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249084 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:51:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249084 [...] As it turns out, a group of people already had that idea, so they started the OpenLike Project. Because the code and icons Facebook uses comes from the Open Web Foundation, this group decided to make it more general and allow people to own their own recommendations that go out more broadly than just Facebook. One of the people behind it is Chris Dixon, who has thought a lot about the open web and hopes it can catch up to Facebook. [...]

]]> By: warsystems » Why We Need an Open “Like” Standard http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249083 Mon, 03 May 2010 10:00:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249083 [...] GigaOM So while Zuckerberg was announcing Facebook’s ambitious plans, Dixon and some like-minded programmers were cooking up their own launch: an open-source standard for recommendations called Open Like. The idea behind the project, which is still in its embryonic stages, is that websites and services would be able to federate recommendations or “likes” by adopting a uniform standard for the data. In the same way that OAuth (which Facebook is now supporting) is an open standard for sharing user information, and OpenID is an open standard for logging into websites and services, Open Like would allow anyone who adopts the standard to make use of recommendation data. [...]

]]> By: Links 28/4/2010: Fedora 13 Previews, Android Beyond 50,000 Apps | Techrights http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249082 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:41:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249082 [...] Why We Need an Open “Like” Standard Messina added that he’s “looking forward to what efforts like OpenLike might do to tip back the scales, and bring the potential and value of such simple and meaningful interactions to other social identity providers across the web.” Indeed, that’s something we should all have an interest in. [...]

]]> By: Nick Mikhailovsky http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249081 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:08:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249081 I think a larger thing is at stake with OpenLike. OpenLike is a way to crowdsource Semantic Web. See an active discussion in the group: http://bit.ly/czCc44

]]> By: Open vs. Closed: What Does Open Really Mean? » Shai Perednik.com http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249080 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:41:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249080 [...] Dixon, co-founder of Hunch, launched a project last week called Open Like, which he says is intended to jump-start an open standard for recommendations, as an alternative to [...]

]]> By: Open vs. Closed: What Does Open Really Mean? http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249079 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:23:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249079 [...] Why We Need an Open “Like” Standard [...]

]]> By: The Semantic Web & THE POWER OF PULL » Blog Archive » The Facebook Open Graph, Part I http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249078 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:44:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249078 [...] As it turns out, a group of people already had that idea, so they started the OpenLike Project. Because the code and icons Facebook uses comes from the Open Web Foundation, this group decided to make it more general and allow people to own their own recommendations that go out more broadly than just Facebook. One of the people behind it is Chris Dixon, who has thought a lot about the open web and hopes it can catch up to Facebook. [...]

]]> By: Trevor Johnston http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249077 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:15:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249077 This is key: “It’s basically a system for tagging pages so that Facebook can understand them.” ..and tons more due to the “like” verb. The semantic web open graph protocol would come in due course but it’s the attachment to users that will allow FB to kill any company it wants to.

Every other sites webpages are reduced to “dumb” data dumps. And FB is the brains of the system. This is an invasion of the same scale (different angle) as Beacon.

]]> By: Brian Kissel http://gigaom.com/2010/04/23/why-we-need-an-open-like-standard/#comment-249076 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:01:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=115530#comment-249076 Check out this article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openlike_all-start_team_to_challenge_to_facebooks.php
Seems like the initiative is already underway.

Seems like choice for end users and website operators is the best approach – encouraging service providers like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, LinkedIn, MySpace, PayPal, etc. to compete for market share and mind share through innovation and execution. Facebook is certainly doing a great job, but so are many other providers.

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