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Title: Yahoo Joins OpenSocial Widget Project

Author: Kopytoff, Verne Article Type: Company
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, pC1(2) Publication Date: Mar 26, 2008
URL of Publication: http://www.sfgate.com

Yahoo! Inc. has announced that it will join with Google Inc. and MySpace in supporting Google's OpenSocial initiative. The initiative is designed to make it easier for developers to create applications that will work on a range of social networking sites by creating a common standard for the applications. Such a standard would save developers time and energy and allow them to get their applications in front of as many users as possible. Yahoo!'s participation lends momentum to the initiative, though Yahoo! has not said when it would implement the OpenSocial standards. Google Inc. has spearheaded the initiative, which it introduced several months ago. LinkdedIn, Bebo and Friendster are also participating. Facebook has thus far declined to participate. Participants indicated they would now form a non-profit group, the OpenSocial Foundation, to oversee the project going forward, and to ensure that the efforts do not unfairly benefit only one member of the group. Thanks to the simplified technical specifications, developers will soon be able to develop products for up to 200 million users, according to a spokesperson at Google.

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Bebo Inc Facebook Inc
Friendster Inc Google Inc
LinkedIn Corp MySpace Inc
Yahoo! Inc

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