Google about to make major social networking move
Google is about to launch an alliance for social networking services, opening up a major battle with Facebook. Open Social is to include more than one dozen social networking companies, such as LinkedIn, Ning, Friendster, and Hi5. It will offer three API services:
* Profile Information (user data)
* Friends Information (social graph)
* Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff)
These services differ from Facebook's, in that they are written in open standards (HTML, Javascript), rather than Facebook's own standard.
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen assesses the move in detail. He concludes that Open Social should be good for Facebook, and expand the social network market. Another developer notes that Open Social applications will have access to data on Google's servers, such as Google Earth content.
The Open Social URL, http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial, is not currently active.
(via Ton Zylstra)
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