opensocial, orkut and the standards

Its been a while since orkut launched its opensocial apps to the Indian users. It was launched with 25 pre-selected interesting apps. After a month or so, there are 317 and growing number of applications in the directory. The excitement among the developer community is really heart warming while it raises a lot of questions as an orkut user to me.

The Standards
Though orkut have a strict guidelines about the behavior and work flow of the apps, most of the apps seems like dont give a damn about it. We all know, how facebook is fighting with the apps now to make it less spammy and protect user data.

I would love to see orkut coming up with a more strict guideline before they approve an app in the directory. Take a look at the screen shot, seems like orkut approved an app with a “Under Construction” screen shot.

My point is as a user, I love the apps but give me apps thats not buggy and cheap. I don’t want to see the orkut users are “forced” to use this kind of half cooked products. How can orkut assure that my information will be safe and secure with these app owners?

While opensocial is interesting, it will be nice if they can control the apps and make sure that quality of the apps are good.