There have been surprisingly fast developments in the brewing war over social networking open standards involving Facebook and Google’s FriendConnect and OpenSocial, which I first referenced in last week’s post on Microsoft’s possible rationales for soon making an offer for Facebook. Facebook on Tuesday announced "fbOpen" as its competing OPEN standard for building Facebook compliant social […]

Developments today prompted me to pull this post I’ve been working on ahead of Part 2 of the "Microhoo Post Mortem Post". Here’s why: Today, some not so minor controversy erupted in the blogosphere in reaction to the news that Facebook had just shut down Google’s FriendConnect on its platform. There were a lot of details […]