Opensocial News
Portable Contacts Provides Secure Social Data Portability
6th April 2009
Google introduced a new system called ‘Portable Contacts’, last month, to make it possible for third party websites to access a user’s friends list without requiring them to disclose their password. More »
Social Features Introduced In iGoogle
20th January 2009
Google seems determined to compete with the popular social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. The search giant is now encouraging its users to utilise features added to iGoogle widgets via OpenSocial and share content from iGoogle with their contacts and friends. More »
Facebook To Go The OpenSocial Way
28th May 2008
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch first broke news about Facebook turning into an open source platform, and the possibility that this could be happening within the next few days. Facebook confirmed this soon after. More »
Yahoo! Plans To Push Open Strategy Across The Board
29th April 2008
Yahoo!’s Chief technology Officer, Ari Balogh and Chief Architect of Platforms, Neal Sample, have announced at the Web 2.0 Expo held in San Francisco on 25th April, that Yahoo! will shortly launch a program called Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and will open up SearchMonkey in private beta. More »
Yahoo! Chooses Sides With Google OpenSocial
27th March 2008
Yahoo! announced support for the OpenSocial platform this week and has joined forces with Google and MySpace to form the OpenSocial Foundation. More »
Google To Launch Social Network Developer Tool On Thursday
31st October 2007
TechCrunch today report on Google’s plans to launch a new project called OpenSocial, which will provide developers a set of Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) to build social networking applications that will work on any participating social network. More »
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