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1) Design your OpenSocial app to adhere strictly to the Google spec (currently at 0.7). This should suffice for most functions (profile/friend queries, rendering, sharing and activity stream pushing).
2) Write alternative paths for code that uses Google's "widgets" Javascript namespace, since not all containers (e.g. MySpace) implement them.
Ta da, you have an OpenSocial app that can run on any container, including Orkut and MySpace. Finally,
3) If your apps want to take advantage of extra metadata available via platform-specific, then go for it, making sure to test for existence of those calls in your code.
If you follow this path then you don't have to worry about "coding to the platform."