Social Apps

Google, following plans announced by two biggest social networking sites, MySpace and Facebook, has launched their own open social engine called Friends Connect.  Friends Connect allows website owners to add social networking functionalities without any complicated programming. Visitors bring along friends from social networks like Facebook, Orkut, and others to interact on their site. Then main feature of Friends Connect is Open Social which will allow third parties to build and develop applications.

The Friends Connect is available to selected partners now

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Representatives from Google, Yahoo, and MySpace outlined the initial plans for the OpenSocial Foundation, a new nonprofit organization whose purpose is to organize the various aspects of the platform. With an early framework already in place at OpenSocial.org, the foundation will primarily serve as a resource hub and communication portal for the developer community.

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MySpace launched a developer platform following� Facebook social network, to open its platform to developers. The MySpace Developer Platform (MDP) allows developers to create applications that interact with MySpace members and their social data. The Platform supports OpenSocial applications.

MySpace will let developers sell ads, sponsorships and products on special pages assigned to each application. Developers initially will keep all revenue.

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Here is the list of companies utilizing Google’s OpenSocial:

Example Applications

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Friendster has launched its developer platform, which will initially offer over 180 applications for the online social network’s 56 million global users. The company will allow developers to place ads and retain all revenue generated. The platform will also support Google’s OpenSocial APIs.

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Several months ago, LinkedIn announced it was working on APIs and a platform strategy for software developers to integrate with LinkedIn and display their application within LinkedIn. With the OpenSocial announcements, developers can now see a lot more about how they can write applications that run inside LinkedIn.

However, LinkedIn will limit the application development to select group of partners.

“The goal of the Intelligent Applications Platform is to help make our users more effective by providing them with access to the intelligence of their professional network both on LinkedIn and on other sites they visit to get work done,” LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye said in a statement. “Our focus is 100 percent professional, so we will be working with select business partners to build high value, high productivity applications.”

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