OpenSocial – Google’s Social Networking Platform

Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Nov 4th, 2007

They have blogging, they have a chat client (and chat functionality built into web-based gmail) they bought Blogspot, Youtube… it was bound to happen that Google looked in the direction of social networking.

They have released OpenSocial – no, its not yet another social networking site. Google has rightly realised that that particular market is well saturated (whew!). OpenSocial is an open API for social networking applications – an interface for accessing and providing information in existing social networking services. It is aimed at forming a common base between the already existing thousands of social networking sites and applications.

The rest of this article is available over at Kleencode.net where Amos and I are now posting all of our tech posts. You can read the rest of this article there.

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