MySpace is now on the list of sites joining Google’s OpenSocial project. Others like Oracle, Salesforce.com, Bebo, SixApart have already signed up to this giant web party. By supplying a common markup language for developers to move forward with, Google may force Facebook to play by its rules and let Google control all the action.
Supposedly, the API set is wicked easy to use. Flixster created a MySpace app in just a day with it.
What is OpenSocial? Amar Gandhi and Peter Chane, Group Product Managers over at Google explain it as,
“OpenSocial is a set of common APIs that will work on many different social websites, including MySpace, Hi5, Ning, orkut, and LinkedIn, among others. In addition, this allows developers to learn one API, then write a social application for any of those sites. Learn once, write anywhere, if you will. And because it’s built on web standards like HTML and JavaScript, developers don’t have to learn a custom programming language.”
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Read my post at:http://techkeyla.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensocial-communities-rolling-in.html
The first applications , aka communities of the Opensocial API have started to roll out. Curiosity is the incorporation of these Communities into sites like Orkut