It’s Official: Google + MySpace = OpenSocial - Rmail

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The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight. From the jointly issued news release:

“MySpace, the world's largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today's announcement underscores MySpace's commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web.”

Other “founding partners” of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. So much for OpenSocial only having the “b-list” of social networks as the original reports indicated. In addition to #1 ranking MySpace, partner Six Apart owns Typepad, LiveJournal, MovableType, and Vox, while new addition Imeem has also become a rising star. Here’s a chart from Hitwise summarizing the combined OpenSocial players versus Facebook in terms of overall traffic market share:

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While MySpace has been widely criticized in recent months for falling behind Facebook and its much-hyped platform, it looks like the sleeping giant has had something up their sleeve all along. With Google and MySpace leading the OpenSocial initiative, and apparently most all of the other major social networks on board, MySpace is right back in the social networking driver’s seat.

The next big obvious questions is: Will Facebook join OpenSocial, or is it going to become Facebook/Microsoft versus Google/MySpace? With more than 40 million users and a somewhat established platform, Facebook will continue to be attractive for developers, but with all of the big players joining Google/MySpace for OpenSocial, staying out might be a big mistake.

Coverage Recap:

Here’s a roundup of some additional coverage we’ve had here on Mashable leading up to this huge announcement:

Ning screencast: Provides you with an idea of how social network creator Ning built their app for OpenSocial.

NewsGator Joins OpenSocial: The company is providing multimedia tools that will be available to all users of Google’s partner sites.

FotoFlexer Interview: Mark interviewed some executives from FotoFlexer about how the company will be leveraging the OpenSocial platform.

Poll: Which social network do you hope dies a slow and painful death? As of yesterday, the vast majority said MySpace!

Google Shares Pass $700: Investors are apparently pretty enthusiastic about the company’s plans to move beyond search.

Additionally, Steve Polland has posted JavaScript code for Flixter’s MySpace app, for the curious that don’t want to wait around a few more hours.

Stay tuned for an interview with another one of the major players in the OpenSocial initiative that we’ll be posting here later this afternoon.



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Link - Comments - Adam Ostrow - Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:32:14 GMT - Feed (1 subs)
User comment: By: xxdesmus
Goome (just saw that one). Great list of names!
User comment: By: xxdesmus
Goospace....wow, that's gross. :P
[...] has announced that they will also be joining OpenSocial, following the huge announcement from MySpace and Google earlier today. Additionally, Bebo has announced that they will be launching a developer program [...]
[...] today "MySpace", the world's largest social network, announced that they are joining forces with Google in the launch OpenSocial. The partnership spearheads an [...]
User comment: By: TWPride
Nick, Every time you post another "troll comment" you come off like a retarded kid trying to make jokes. Some people give you a courtesy laugh, but most just feel pity for you. Do yourself a favor and go back to making half-witted serious comments which blend into the rest of the moronic prattle. That's your only real chance in life, to blend in. Yours, TWPride
User comment: By: Sean Best
Webmaster: Thanks for making it such a chore to sign-up for Mashable. Given that there are only 17 or so members (ok, 46 including Nick's comments), you'd think that even bots would be welcome. Oh, and let me know if the postal code I gave you guys works...
User comment: By: FakePeteCashmore
I second that.
User comment: By: Sean Best
@ Nick You have exceeded your troll comments for a single post. In the future, please combine them into one uninspiring comment that we can all just skip over on our way to something intelligent. For now, please stand up, unplug your keyboard, and slowly back away from the computer. Do not pass go, do not collect $1000. Once you figure out how this whole internet thing works, you are welcome to re-join the group. With love, Sean
[...] Mashable, [...]
User comment: By: James Gillmore
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[...] Mashable.com 看來的資訊，Google 偉大的 Opensocial [...]
User comment: By: Adam Ostrow
lol, that's the link where the OpenSocial API WILL be found later tonight, according to the Google/MySpace press release.
[...] [via] Powered by Gregarious (40) [...]
User comment: By: me
Adam, I get a 404 on the "OpenSocial" link. A couple days earlier I think it was your post that couldn't spell properly. Now you can't link properly. Mashable needs a new writer! Go to the link below people. That's if, and only if, you can write and link properly... http://mashable.com/writers
User comment: By: mundochis
Oh shit, Google just got himself the kind of girlfriend we all hate to see our friends with. You know the kind I'm talking about.
[...] 东西还没见到就怀疑这怀疑那，的确不是很科学地对待新生事物的态度。然而从今天的系列文章可以看到，google的open social的梦幻阵容正越来越"强大"：Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, XING等等等（Tianji应该是中国的天际网…），连最后时刻MySpace也进来了。不过这种梦幻组合越梦幻，令人怀疑的地方就越多，或者说让人期待的东西肯定就越少，为什么？基本的竞争的商业规律而已，我不相信Google能打破　－－这么多互相竞争的服务可能统一在google的麾下吗？除非google把它们全买下来。　:) [...]
User comment: By: Dennison Uy
Nick stop trolling for a while and read my article http://blog.codesignstudios.com/2007/11/02/open-social-is-not-googles-answer-to-the-microsoft-facebook-deal/
[...] all the buzz surrounding Google's revelation that it has been collaborating with MySpace, [...]
User comment: By: Nick Schmidt
Troll Comment: OMG>. I just gave google & myspace a clue for a new website.. I'm going to go buy all this domains now.. then sell them for thousands of dollars to them!!
User comment: By: Nick Schmidt
Troll Comment: If myspace and google had kids it would be called meoogle. myspacele.. or you could reverse it goospace goome goomy googace gomyspace gospace gomy or mixt it up mypagle paygoo capsmygoo lacemoog casepoog\
[...] 2:06pm PST Update: That's not a rumor. MySpace has been in on it all along. addthis_url = [...]
[...] some real weight to the new OpenSocial platform. MySpace, NewsGator, Bebo, and SixApart are now confirmed as a partners on the [...]
[...] y MySpace han firmado un acuerdo en el día de hoy el que unirán sus fuerzas para lanzar OpenSocial, un conjunto de APIs para la construcción de aplicaciones sociales a través de la web… con esto [...]
User comment: By: Dennison Uy
It's the Chinese character for love, pronounced as "ai".
User comment: By: Dennison Uy
Non-troll Comment: ROFL. I love you Nick Schmidt.
User comment: By: Adam Ostrow
lol, thanks :)
User comment: By: Nick Schmidt
Troll Comoment: People who use Chinese/Asian symbols for their profile icon.. should NOT be typing in English.. Nor should they have an icon that no one understands. Plus I don't think you are a Chinese symbol... or you could have been for Halloween.. but FYI.. that was yesterday...
User comment: By: Dennison Uy
People who can't type properly should also be shot.
User comment: By: Dennison Uy
People who put label their comments with "Troll Comment" should be shot.
User comment: By: Mike
Mashable beat Techcrunch with the better headline. Everyone jumping up and down now for MySpace. Facebook is in MySpace is out. Cheap bands and gangsters took it over. So what, Typepad? ........LOL You guys need to step outside and catch some sun.
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