{"id":1872,"date":"2007-11-02T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/02\/facebook-open-to-opensocial-vc-says\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T16:31:54","slug":"facebook-open-to-opensocial-vc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/02\/facebook-open-to-opensocial-vc-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook open to OpenSocial, VC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Kafka at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2007\/11\/facebook-vc-we-like-opensocial-not-raising-money.html\">Silicon Alley Insider<\/a> and Erick Schonfeld at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/11\/02\/jim-breyer-extra-500-million-round-for-facebook-a-total-fiction\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> are reporting that Facebook board member and investor Jim Breyer said at an event last night that the social-networking site is open to working with Google&#8217;s OpenSocial project. The money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nobody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to beat us because they are more open,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Breyer also reportedly said that the rumours of another $500-million or so being invested in Facebook (in addition to the $240-million that Microsoft put in recently) are not true, and that the site has no plans to do an IPO until sometime in 2009 at the earliest. <\/p>\n<p>So I guess Facebook is either going to jump on the OpenSocial train, or we&#8217;re going to have a war in which it and Google both try to &#8220;out-open&#8221; the other. That would be fun, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Kafka at Silicon Alley Insider and Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch are reporting that Facebook board member and investor Jim Breyer said at an event last night that the social-networking site is open to working with Google&#8217;s OpenSocial project. The money quote: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nobody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to beat us because they are more open,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Breyer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/02\/facebook-open-to-opensocial-vc-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook open to OpenSocial, VC says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}