Looks like Google intends to become the Java of the web social networking space. It plans to release a generic API for building applications that run on social networking sites, sort of a generic Facebook API. OpenSocial would allow developers to write their social applications once and deploy them on various social-networking platforms supporting the API.
Predicting Java on OS X is now akin to predicting the weather. Tropical Storm Leopard was expected to be a 6 on the Java scale but actually turned out to be barely a 5. Experts at the National Office for Write-Once-Run-Everywhere Computing predict an additional Java 6 storm over the next eleven months. In the meantime, Java developers plan to relocate from what’s become a rather inconvenient turf. Sports at 11.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.