Last week Google released it’s new platform OpenSocial, this platform allows a developer to write an application for MySpace for example, or Orkut (Google’s unknown social network, it’s popular in Brazil…).

I’m going to talk about why I like opensocial from two standpoints, the developer and the end-user.

OpenSocial from a developer’s standpoint is a godsend, from both sides, on the HiPPstr side it allows me to really easily have hundreds of great apps of which users can put on their profile, on the other side it allows great traction I can instantly have an application deployed all over the web, before you had to write your app for Facebook, not too hard, what about if you write a Mac OS X app, porting that too windows isn’t easy.

I think this is the future of computing, a thin client that accesses, could be Web 3.0 (This idea is brought up a lot by the infamous Molly Wood); a diverse and open platform where I can write an application and it will work universally any where.

From a user standpoint OpenSocial is just as exciting, lets look forward a few years, when OpenSocial is a developed and mature platform, imagine the things OpenSocial will be able to do, essentially this is the death of Facebook, which in my opinion will result in huge fragmentation of the Social Networking space. There will be lots of small networks interconnected by an open platform, OpenSocial. Greatly improving the user experience, when it no longer matters if half your friends are on Bebo and half on MySpace. You might say, “You’re an idiot, OpenSocial is for widgets not interconnecting social networks”, true that’s the use at the moment, it has been talked about that in the future OpenSocial, will provide methods for sharing data between different networks.

This seems to be a common Google strategy (mentioned on TWiT), if you can’t buy a market fragment it, or at least try because all of above is irrelevant unless this catches on and at the moment with partners such as Bebo and MySpace I am not doubting it will be popular.