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Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

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Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google today announced they have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web. Yahoo!'s support of OpenSocial and role as a founding member of the new foundation are landmarks for the rapidly growing specification which will now offer developers the potential to connect with more than 500 million people worldwide.

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Comments (3)

nikkels ·
Does this mean that they have given MS the 2 finger salute

or

they doubled the price of the friendly take over?
ColonelPanik ·
Maybe both. Maybe some other reason?

From the OpenSocial site >>"OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. Built from standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps with OpenSocial that access a social network's friends and update feeds. By using a common API, developers can extend the reach of their applications more quickly, yielding more functionality for users."
thenixedreport ·
Crud! They're associating with Ruppert Murdoch. *sigh* Oh well.

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