I went to an OpenSocial talk at Google about a month ago. Sorry it's taken me so long to write a summary. Hopefully it won't be completely out of date ;) Here are a bunch of random notes: The talk was held in the same room that the Bay Area Python Interest Group normally holds its meetings. However, I knew right away that something was different when I got there a half an hour ahead of time, and the room was already filling up. During the meeting, I counted rows and columns, and estimated there were about 200 people present. Google was making a big deal of the meeting. They were providing dinner, which they don't do for our group. Looking at the JavaScript examples, the code looks strangely verbose. Security is not defined in the spec. Dealing with third-party JavaScript is a challenge. Facebook's answer was FBJS. At least at that point in time, OpenSocial didn't have a well-defined answer to that problem. One of the demos crashed. They're taking t
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