Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Yahoo, Google, MySpace form nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation

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March 25, 2008 7:12 AM PDT

Yahoo, Google, MySpace form nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation
Posted by Caroline McCarthy 3 comments

This post was expanded at 10:49 a.m. PDT to add comment from the OpenSocial Foundation conference call.
It's like the Justice League of social media: Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.'s MySpace.com announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on social-networking sites.
The OpenSocial Foundation is expected to be formed within 90 days, with more OpenSocial partners from across the Web on board in addition to the three responsible for the announcement....

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