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Went Hot: November 8, 2007 - 2:39 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 607 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google Other
Techcrunch - This time, he claims to have easily accessed the iLike application on Ning. Specifically, he says he can add and remove songs on users’ playlists. And more damaging, he can also access a user’s friends list in the client-side code. Give him a Ning username and he can give you details on their friends: relationship to user, last date of update, photo, profile creation date and part of their email address.
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One of the most amusing things about all of this to me, as a bit of an aside, is that the initials for Open Social are "OS". So... "Google OS". After all the years of rumours about Google making their own Operating System, well, they finally did. Sort of. :)
On a more practical note, having looking through the docs on this thing somewhat the disturbing thing is that it's still only a 0.5 release and not really even that close to being finished. Parts of it simply are done yet. It's got a rather rushed out the door feeling to the entire thing.
As for SEOing it, or using it for social marketing ... When you get rid of all the marketing talk and look at the thing, it's basically just REST-based AJAX using some Google-based widgets for persistence. Nothing really to SEO that I can see really.
I don't think anyone's going to seriously be using OS though after these last two hacks until that add in some proper security though. Basic Username/Password context, IP-locked encrypted session keys, etc. Something. (Or at least, unless you're FaceBook, it seems like it would be foolish to right now.)