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Despite the fact that OpenSocial solves the problem of social media platform's platform’s extensibility and gadgets portability, it has two major limitations. First, it is user-centric but does not take the user's context into account. In many social media platforms context is a crucial component and if gadgets were able to retrieve the user's context (from the hosting platform), it would greatly improve user's user’s experiences.

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