March 26th, 2008Yahoo Joins OpenSocial.
Yahoo joins the Google led OpenSocial initiative. In addition to this, OpenSocial has been spun off as an independent project. We see the standard becoming one of the main threads that make the social web.
Yesterday (Weds. 25th), Yahoo announced that they were now going to be supporting OpenSocial. This latest development massively increases the range and scope of this project and its developement. To seal the deal, the OpenSocial project and all its associated code have been spun off into a separate independent entity called the OpenSocial Foundation and all its source code will be released under an open-source license. We see this as a major development, allowing anyone (savvy enough) to become involved.
Google have up till now had quite a few companies sign up to OpenSocial, but its implementation across several sites has been lacking. By contrast, the Facebook application platform has garnered a lot more developer interest and users. It seems very much like developers and users have found a way to use/ ear from facebook platforms. So far, this hasn't happened with OpenSocial. The numbers clearly bear this out. With this announcement, we see a consolidation.
There are now 2 very simple choices for social web application developers out there. Facebook or OpenSocial. Yahoo's official release doc can be found here.
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