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Even though Ipernity clearly is the best all round photo sharing site on the web, there is no hiding that you are quite minute compared to the giant which shall remain unnamed. That is not fair, but it's an easy understood fact none the less. They were first, they were good. Now Ipernity is better, but you're too late, because the community is over there, and that's not easy to change. Well, now you have the chance, if you act on it!
Google has just announced its OpenSocial platform for interaction between social websites. Who's on it till now? Sites like Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, and now also MySpace, Bebo and Six Apart. Who's not on? You know who! They're owned by one of Googles main competitors, and are not likely to join anything they create any time soon. If you join in now it will be dead easy for MySpace, Orkut, and Bebo users to use Ipernity with their social networks, and just think of what just a small fraction of their users will mean for Ipernity! Slide is already on the bandwagon, don't let any other photo sharing sites beat you to it! Also, as an extra bonus; If you're one of the first to join OpenSocial, you might very well be mentioned in a lot of articles and blogposts about OpenSocial which inevitably will follow in the wake of the launch of OpenSocial. Please do not miss this opportunity!
As Techcrunch notes:
It’s clear that the developers who arrived early to the Facebook Platform party won easy customers. Those that came later had to fight much harder. Developers found their new gold strike, and they will soon all be there, mining away.
Edit: OpenSocial is now, ehm, open...!
Kpjas says:
Is there a niche for Ipernity on the photo sharing arena ? I think it is. Ipernity is predominantly European (or rather non-US) and it probably should intensify the efforts in that direction.
Are there other benefits of OpenSocial apart from a stream of new users and indirect publicity ?
markus loissonpro replies:
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Seen in a group discussion (?)
forteller replies:
I'm not a huge fan of MySpace users either, but what will become of ipernity without revenue? And, hey, maybe not all MySpace users are as bad as we like to believe they are.. ;)
Also, MySpace is just one of many websites/webapps that are part of OpenSocial. Other benefits might be for example the ability to upload photos (etc.) to ipernity from online storage services like box.net, easy integration of a Meebo chat widget on your profile page, editing your photos in online photo editing apps like picnik or FotoFlexer sending them directly from ipernity and then back again after fixing them, and there's a whole lot of other unexpected possibilities in a broad cooperation like this. All of this can happen without OpenSocial, of course, but then ipernity needs to negotiate a separate deal with all the different companies, and have to write code and configure ipernity to work with all of them separately. (Note: I do not know of any of the companies/services that I've mentioned are part of OpenSocial or not, I'm just using them as examples.)
Team ipernitypro replies:
www.ipernity.com/blog/team/74166
forteller replies:
Oh, and BTW; I'm not so sure that OpenSocial is the best thing anymore. It was at the time I wrote this blog post, but now I think DataPortability is the way to go!
chromatic orbpro replies:
One of the thing OpenSocial implies is the use of a common "definition" for key element of social applications. For example the definition of a "Person" object would mean all sites could share the same basic attributes for user accounts. This would enables better compatibility between sites and could allow for users to switch sites more easily. Not really what most sites like...