Happy birthday, OpenSocial! Welcome to Xiaonei
OpenSocial, the standards platform that makes it easier to write applications across social networks, is celebrating its one-year birthday in San Francisco today. As part of the festivities, OpenSocial made several announcements, most significantly launching on Chinese social networking site Xiaonei, and releasing some impressive statistics.
Getting onto Xiaonei is pretty significant for making inroads into the Chinese market — with 30 million registered users, it’s the largest social networking site in China, and has built… Continue Reading
Yahoo joins OpenSocial, OpenSocial goes non-profit
As predicted, Yahoo has joined the OpenSocial initiative, which Google and many partners launched last October to set standards for third-party developer applications that run across social networks. What wasn’t expected is the follow-up move — the formation of the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation with Google, Yahoo and MySpace as founding members. This foundation is meant to ensure that OpenSocial standards remain truly neutral and beneficial to third-party application developers.
The move was caused, at least in… Continue Reading
Introducing VastPark, the owner of OpenSocial.com
OpenSocial, Google’s ambitious project to set standards for developers across Web sites, won accolades all round.
Except for its funky URL: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/. You’ll never remember it.
Guess who owns www.OpenSocial.com.
Answer: An Australian company called VastPark which, it turns out, has an open vision that is very similar to Google’s. The difference is, VastPark wants to let people port virtual products across virtual worlds. Just as Google wants to be break the vise-lock Facebook has on social networking,… Continue Reading