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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Let's back up.
The open social web's first big break came in the late aughts when Google teamed up with OpenSocial— a set of open source standards for social media. Together, they would tear down Facebook's walled gardens.
On launch night, 2007, things were looking up. OpenSocial was a tech media darling. Even MySpace decided to get in on the action in the eleventh hour.
Openness wins again!" they declared. It was a social web- er, I mean, OpenSocial revolution!
https://web.archive.org/web/20080229063659/http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/11/report-from-the.html