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31st October 2007 - Link Blog

Marc Andreesen on Open Social. Marc describes it as an open standard for implementing Facebook style “containers” that other applications can live in. My initial assumption that it was an implementation of the Social Graph paper ideas was incorrect.

Posted 31st October 2007 at 4:58 pm

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