Yahoo joins Google’s OpenSocial
Category: Google, Online News, Social Networking, Yahoo
A recent announcement by Yahoo press center states that they have joined the OpenSocial Foundation. Open Social is a Google initiative that already includes MySpace and other social networks and is a nonprofit organization to promote a universal standard for applications on social-networking sites (OpenSocial.org).
Google also officially welcomed Yahoo to the foundation on their official blog.
Facebook, which is now one of the biggest social networks and about to pass MySpace in Worldwide traffic numbers, is still refusing to participate in OpenSocial, choosing instead to support Facebook developers only.
The reason for OpenSocial is to join social networks together for sharing of information via the creation of common APIs that can work across multiple platforms.
According to the site:
“The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.”
Here are some examples of applications that have already been built on OpenSocial.
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