Stories tagged "opensocial"

OpenSocial is Google’s developer platform for social networking applications. It’s the backbone behind applications on MySpace, Orkut, Friendster Friendster , LinkedIn, Plaxo, hi5, and many more. We’ve gathered a list of 13 OpenSocial yahoo-google-a

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The latest update to iGoogle’s sandbox promised more social capabilities for developers, with the biggest enhancement being the support for Open Social applications in activity streams. This version of iGoogle is now available for limited testing, pushi

MySpace will open up its data portability project broadly on Thursday, after launching it with a handpicked set of sites.

Representatives of Facebook, Google, and Plaxo get into ongoing controversy over friend-connecting APIs. "The point is that the individuals have shared custodianship of it because they have overlapping knowledge of each other's connections," ...

Google updated their iGoogle developer sandbox today by integrating Google Talk. While this is not particularly newsworthy on its own, it does give insight into the future Google has planned for iGoogle -- and how it is aiming for Facebook's jugular.

Facebook has provided much of the source code for the platform of its social network to the open-source community in an effort to better compete with key rivals like Google. Is it too late? Have your say.

Comparison of Google's Friend Connect, MySpace's Data Availability, and Facebook's Connect. Includes the current status and how they relate to OpenSocial and DataPortability.

Genkii is not only one of the coolest new companies on the planet, headed up by CEO, Ken Brady, formerly Director of International Strategies at Centric, a science fiction writer, and award winning film producer. But I think Genkii is one of the first..

It isn't just a site where users can build their own social networks -- Ning is a model of how to create a perpetual growth machine.