OpenSocial continues to grow: Welcome, Yahoo!
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product
Manager
Last November,
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensocial-makes-web-better.html"
id="acjj" >OpenSocial was created to help build infrastructure
for the social web. OpenSocial provides a common mechanism for
developers to easily hook into many different social networks and
extend their functionality. Sites including MySpace and orkut have
begun to provide OpenSocial applications to their users, and hi5
will be rolling out next week.
Today we're pleased that
href="http://ycorpblog.com/2008/03/25/announcing-the-opensocial-foundation/" >
Yahoo! has announced its support for OpenSocial. We're
looking forward to having Yahoo! users join the hundreds of
millions of people who will soon enjoy OpenSocial applications.
This addition means even more distribution for developers,
encourages participation by even more websites, and, most
importantly, results in more features for users all across the
web.
In addition, Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google are joining with the
broader community to create a non-profit foundation to foster the
continued open development of OpenSocial. To that end, we've
also launched
href="http://www.opensocial.org/" >OpenSocial.org, designed to
become the main documentation hub and primary source of information
about OpenSocial. To learn more, and to get involved, please review
the
href="http://sites.google.com/a/opensocial.org/opensocial/OpenSocial-Foundation-Proposal" >
foundation proposal.
With that, welcome, Yahoo! We look forward to growing the social
web together.
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