Obasangjo Dare is a constructive critic of OpenSocial and a Microsoft guy. He raises a lot of pertinent issues in a long post. I think OpenSocial will be a big story at Widgety Goodness. He boils it down to a five sentence elevator pitch here:

Dare Obasanjo

OpenSocial is billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, it isn’t. OpenSocial is a standard set of REST APIs which social networks can utilize to expose user profiles and relationship data. Everything else required by a widget platform from authentication and authorization to user interface integration and an application directory is unspecified. OpenSocial is to a standardized widget platform as an internal combustion engine is to an airplane. A step in the right direction but still very far from the end goal.

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