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I am having a very lame problem with Google Egypt's search engine. Results returned are only "pages from Egypt" whenever I change what I am searching for.

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Just finished viewing this movie about Google's OpenSocial  initiative. Here is a quick quote to let you know what is this all about:

"OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds."

There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. And I am expecting that the list will grow since this is Google after all.

Open-Source Opportunities

OpenSocial.NET (or even LinQ to OpenSocial!):

.NET Wrapper for all server side functionalities in OpenSocial.

OpenSocial jQuery: client side?

This could be cool.

 Facebook Wrapper:

IMHO, Facebook won't adopt this standard until sometime because it already rolled out it's own platform a looong time ago. So there should be some kind of wrapper around opensocial to map facebook APIs to make creating apps that work even in facebook possible through opensocial.

In a very smart move by Gavin Joyce, dotnetkicks creator, the full source-code of the website is now public on GoogleCode and you can Checkout the code from it's SVN repository.

This move will make things much better as the website lacked a lot of important features that the community will now have the opportunity to add quickly.

To me, this is the first time I've seen anything like that. No website that offered a certain service to the people (example: facebook, digg, etc..) had it's own source code available to the public to enhance and update. The only 'open' thing about some websites is their APIs that you can leverage in your own application.

So far, Gavin didn't announce his plans on how persons will be able to update the actual website, but so far, running dotnetkicks locally is just good to see in your local computer ;)