According to GigaOm, DIAL is an open protocol, which gives it massive dev and OEM appeal.

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Unlike Sony who hides their protocols, the WACI NX has an open protocol which you can access from just about any web programming language.

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Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week to accelerate the global growth of bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol.

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Goel: We support Open RTB (the protocol used by many companies).

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In March 2011, Mike Hearn, a Google engineer, released an open source java client for bitcoin called BitcoinJ so obviously the protocol did not go unnoticed at Team Google.

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Chris Messina pointed out that people seeking to create their own activity stream applications could benefit from another open source project, status.net, that has implemented a protocol called OStatus that incorporates the activity stream formats.

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