While at GSP East, I presented on Muddl, a light fun word game that is anagram like in nature. I received lots of great feedback on the game from folks and encourage everyone to check it out.

It’s currently available on Facebook and Bebo. I’ll be finishing the port to MySpace and other OpenSocial containers soon.

The game play is very simple. After you go to the app you’re presented with some scrambled up letters. You then try to figure out what the word is. If you don’t get the word correct the system gives you a clue. If you’re still wrong you’ll get the first letter of the word revealed. After 3 tries you’ll be provided with another word. The game continues to challenge you as you play by increasing the length of the word.

Photo of Erik © James Duncan Davidson used with permission.

This week at GSP East the big names in the OpenSocial space came forward and basically gave a brief sales pitch on why they’re the platform to build on. Allen Stern has a nice synopsis of the panel. As a developer making decisions on where to focus time and efforts it seems like OpenSocial itself is really just playing catchup to Facebook. Most of the development folks I know are focused on Facebook still and are waiting for OpenSocial. The philosophical discussion aside, OpenSocial is looking stronger and stronger each day. Facebook recently open sourced their platform, but they’ve yet to announce any partners (beyond Bebo) who are adopting it. So their late foray into openness may be moot now.