It would appear that OpenSocial and SCA are birds of a feather –

 

1)       A singular focus on portability (components or widgets) across containers

2)       Disregard for data and data integration

3)       Sound bites about value for the end customer when it is really a provider (or ISV) play for relevance

4)       Reactive response to the dominance of a vendor/technology (Facebook or .NET as the case may be)

 

when in reality what the end customer/user wants is interoperability and unlocking/sharing of data, across heterogeneous systems and social graphs, as the case may be.