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OpenSocial Gets AOL

In the apparent battle between Google's OpenSocial and Facebook, Bebo more or less threw up its hands and joined both sides.  Now its new corporate parent, AOL, is backing OpenSocial.

Google Previews Friend Connect

There is a trend emerging: online giants making it so users can take their social networks with them anywhere they go on the web, sort of like digital carpooling. Google threw in its offering today, or will tonight anyway, with Google Friend Connect, a wash-n-wear service for incorporating social networking into non-social-networking websites.

Developers Asked To Play In iGoogle Sandbox

In a recent post that was about 125 words long, a Googler included the term "social" four times.  Keep Facebook, MySpace, and whatever else you like in mind, then, while learning about a new developer sandbox for iGoogle.

Yahoo Welcomed Into OpenSocial

Brace yourself: the words "Welcome, Yahoo!" have appeared on the Official Google Blog.  This isn't some merger- or search-related announcement, however; Yahoo instead joined OpenSocial.

Yahoo May Sign Up For OpenSocial

What counts most major social networks - and Yahoo - among its members?  Official confirmation is still lacking, but later this year, maybe Google OpenSocial.

FindMeOn Upset With Google Over OpenSocial

Most lawsuits against Google seem to be the result of badly planned get-rich-quick schemes.  A complaint from FindMeOn may have something to it, however, and centers on the similarities between Google's OpenSocial and the smaller company's Open Social Networking (OpenSN).

The Battle Between Facebook & OpenSocial

Facebook appears to be trying to gain some ground against Google’s as-yet-unreleased OpenSocial effort by opening up its developer platform for other sites to use.

Bebo's Own Open App Program

Oh, OpenSocial. How utopian. How idealistic. How run-by-Google.How not actually what Bebo decided to go with for their Open Application Platform, announced today (CNET coverage), despite having joined the initiative last month. Instead, their platform is set to be Facebook-compatible, making it easy for developers to port their Facebook apps to Bebo. Which, you know, they’re all just dying to do.

Plaxo Gives Thanks For OpenSocial

Google’s OpenSocial has been both laughed at and fawned over as people have debated if it has any value.  The discussion will, by and large, continue, but the people at Plaxo have already decided that OpenSocial is extremely good.

Rapleaf Looks At OpenSocial Members, Facebook

Whether it’s from reading reports or scoping out the sites ourselves, most of us have a pretty good feel for various social networks - how big they are, who’s joined them, and so on.  New statistics from Rapleaf don’t really shake things up, but they do provide some interesting insights.