Tag archive: OpenSocial

AOL has decided to ratchet up its presence in the social networking world by throwing its support behind Google's OpenSocial API, a toolkit that lets develoeprs write a single online application that can operate on a range of social networks. Recent AOL acquiree Bebo already supports OpenSocial; Internet giant Yahoo has also announced support for the technology, as have LInkedIn, Google's own Orkut, and Hi5. AOL plans to first… Read More

In a move that's certain not to sit well with Yahoo's would-be overlords in Redmond, the company has announced a partnership with MySpace and Google to form the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, dedicated to driving the development of platform-neutral social applications for the Internet. The OpenSocial Foundation will service as a community-driven, neutral forum for developing applications for Google's OpenSocial API. The… Read More

Internet titan Google getting ready to enter the social networking business—not with Orkut, an early social networking effort now dominated by Brazilians, but with OpenSocial, a new distribution platform designed to distribute online applications (a.k.a. widgets) to a broad range of social networking sites. Instead of running its own social networking site, Google wants to be the back-end that pushes applications and widgets to those… Read More