> "Like every other product Google has released since search and ads, OpenSocial has been a dud." Talk about one's perspective being waaaaay off. Gmail, Reade

> "Like every other product Google has released since search and ads, OpenSocial has been a dud." Talk about one's perspective being waaaaay off. Gmail, Reader, Maps, Chrome, Groups, News, Orkut - all of these products have clearly been duds when you consider how profitable Google's search + ads business has been. Then again by that same yardstick you could say that 99.99% of online businesses are complete duds, even though there are a lot of them out there that are quite profitable. Look at Orkut, when compared to a Myspace or a Facebook it is an absolute dud, however with some perspective it is among the largest social networks in some of the world's fastest growing economies (Brazil, India) - not a bad position to be in whatsoever. > No, a revolution means that somebody gets beheaded. Well, then if that's the case, Google's search was definitely not a revolution. Sure it was an innovative product, but I still see Yahoo running around with a search team and with a still sizeable chunk of the search business (~25% isn't anything to scoff at whatsoever)