OpenSocial is late to the party

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Google product manager Amar Gandhi announced in a blog post on Tuesday night that there have been “a couple of modifications” to the company’s release of OpenSocial compatibility for its Orkut social network. In other words, there appears to be some red tape. Instead of immediately rolling out the Orkut platform, which it was originally scheduled to do right around now, Google will be conducting a “prelaunch testing period” for select applications. That will last about four weeks. “We apologize for delaying the launch a few weeks,” Gandhi wrote. “We feel that this prelaunch testing period will ensure that users are introduced to apps in the best way possible.”

I have to say I’m not terribly sad about this, as it will give us some more time to polish our app. When opensocial launches, we will be one of the first dating sites on the scene and will capture the new “free and open” business model. This will give us a huge advantage going forward that sites like Match and Plentyoffish will just not be able to keep up with

This entry was posted Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 filed under: Uncategorized by Andy