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Surprise--OpenSocial is alpha codePosted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on Nov 6, 2007 12:47 PM Subscribe Alerts: The buzz about Google's OpenSocial APIs has died down as Google's Android phone platform took the stage, now eclipsed by Facebook's social ad service. A few companies, such as Plaxo,...[Read the rest]

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The unofficial directory of the 'OpenSocial Alliance' (26 companies and counting): It seems as though barely an hour passes where some other company doesn't go public with its plans to support Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework and it's getting hard to... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Nov 2, 2007 11:05 AM
Should Microsoft join or fight the OpenSocial?: What would happen if Microsoft -- whose own dev.live.com story is slowly evolving and so far has yet to take the development world by storm -- decided to surprise everyone... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Nov 2, 2007 7:48 AM
Facebook's dilemma: To be OpenSocial or not to be: Facebook is now the lone wolf, the only major social network not to partake of Google's OpenSocial APIs. This is understandable. A radical change of course is not easy to... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Nov 2, 2007 6:55 AM
Google's OpenSocial: Strategy, money and the art of war, err APIs: Google rolled out its OpenSocial initiative--along with nearly every big social networking player not named Facebook--and the response was fairly overwhelming. Developers and techies tend to do that, but Google's... [Read the rest]; Posted by Larry Dignan in Between the Lines on: Nov 2, 2007 4:01 AM
The hidden OpenSocial press conference (future of information sharing): Google's OpenSocial announcement today suggests changes that may improve the future of social networking (click here for Dan Farber's coverage). Hidden from view during the press conference, an improvised parallel... [Read the rest]; Posted by Michael Krigsman in IT Project Failures on: Nov 1, 2007 8:38 PM
OpenSocial - a first enterprise take: While the OpenSocial press conference was ongoing, Irregulars Mike Krigsman, Susan Scrupski and I used Twitter to pepper Robert Scoble with questions. Listening to David Berlind's podcast recording of proceedings,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dennis Howlett in Irregular Enterprise on: Nov 1, 2007 7:14 PM
Google to open Orkut OpenSocial developer sandbox tonight: The campfire is burning tonight on the Google campus as the company prepares to launch an Orkut sandbox for working with the OpenSocial APIs. Developers will be able to register,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Nov 1, 2007 6:04 PM
The OpenSocial Business Model: Will the biggest social containers win? Google's CEO says no.: In my most recent post regarding today's announcement between Google and MySpace that MySpace would be embracing Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework of APIs, I noted that I asked two... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Nov 1, 2007 5:37 PM
Full audio of MySpace/Google/Flixster news conference; Also, how is identity handled?: As promised in the video that I just posted that demonstrated how Flixster used Google's just announced OpenSocial APIs to build the functionality of its social movie reviews Web site... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Nov 1, 2007 3:55 PM
Video demo: Flixster built-into a MySpace profile via Google's OpenSocial framework: Dan Farber and I just got done participating in a news teleconference with executives from Google and MySpace including MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt who... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Nov 1, 2007 2:56 PM
Official: MySpace joins Google's "OpenSocial" platform: I never saw this coming but it makes a whole lot of sense. MySpace have announced that they're supporting Google's OpenSocial APIs in favor of building out its own third-party... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Nov 1, 2007 1:34 PM
Google's OpenSocial APIs pick up steam--MySpace and Bebo: Updated: Speaking during a press conference about MySpace joining the OpenSocial train, Google CEO Eric Schmidt painted the big picture. "The broader story is the Web has moved to the... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Nov 1, 2007 12:50 PM
"OpenSocial" - Google's combine and conquer social networking strategy: More details of Google's social networking plans have emerged, revealing a "combine and conquer" strategy aimed squarely at Facebook and, to a lesser extent, MySpace. [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Oct 31, 2007 6:25 AM