Robert Scoble says: Joe from Flixter denotes why this is SO HUGE: his app will run anywhere that the OpenSocial platform is running. Plaxo. Ning. NewsGator. MySpace. No rewriting of apps. The Open Social announcement is an equivalent to Sun announcing Java in the mid-nineties… The big promise back then was write-once run-everywhere… Java never became the major success for writing end-user apps that Sun had dreamed off, so the jury has to be out. Hopefully the Open Social API designers will keep Java’s history in mind as they take their technology forward. MS Windows users don’t...

So there we have it… Google has made a big splash into the social networking arena. Open Social is its name and helping widget developers is its game. Great news for developers, but no news for users of these sites.Robert Scoble is raving about it something rotten on twitter and his blog, like a surfer riding the big kahuna… I love his excitement but I can’t share it. End users now get the same “virus apps” spreading across multiple social sites (MySpace, Ning, Hi5, etc) because these apps are can now be built atop the same APIs. The problem is the data remains stuck...

Soup.io is a great new web app coming out of the YEurope oven. In short its a little bit of microblogging mixed up content aggregation from other sites such as flickr, twitter, delicious, and in my case Wordpress.com (there’s more take a look). There’s already some chat in the blogosphere comparing it’s microblogging features to twitter and pownce.Soup.io lacks the immediacy of twitter and its desktop & SMS entrypoints, but that’s ok by me.Soup.io to me is a wonderful way to aggregate the content that I’m producing through various web apps, which I would consider...