25th March Comments

Google, Yahoo Join in The Tangled (Open)Social Web

Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

In a day of openness among the giants of the Web, Microsoft’s announcement is dwarfed by the joint venture between ardent rivals.
Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has joined forces with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and MySpace to announce the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit venture to support the development of portable, interoperable applications under the OpenSocial standard.

This comes the same day that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced it is adding to the Windows Live platform the ability to share contact information with friends on five social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo, Hi5 and Tagged.
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