Google's OpenSocial Foundation to be created within 90 days
Posted by Carolyn Lo on March 26, 2008 at 2:26 PM
On Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Myspace announced the formation of the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit group "to ensure the neutrality and longevity" of Google's OpenSocial, according to a release. Google hopes to emphasize the community aspect.OpenSocial was introduced last year by Google to unify all social applications. Those implementing OpenSocial include Engage.com, Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, Oracle, orkut, and Plaxo.
Facebook will not be joining the foundation nor will it implement OpenSocial. A statement from the company said, "The company will continue to evaluate partnership opportunities that will benefit the 300,000 Facebook Platform developers while improving the Facebook user experience."
OpenSocial is possibly the stepping stone to opening up all social networks, thus Facebook may fear losing its users. Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 writes, "All that differentiates Facebook for an individual user is the presence of that users friend's on Facebook -- which forces them to use Facebook to connect with them."
Sources: The New York Times, Publishing 2.0, News.com
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2Fweb_20%2F2008%2F03%2Fgoogles_opensocial_foundation_to_be_crea.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="214" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/opensocial.png"><img alt="opensocial.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/opensocial-thumb-248x236.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="204" width="214" /></a></form>On Tuesday, <b>Google</b>, <b>Yahoo</b>, and <b>Myspace</b> announced the formation of the <b>OpenSocial Foundation</b>, a nonprofit group "to ensure the neutrality and longevity" of Google's <b>OpenSocial</b>, according to a release. Google hopes to emphasize the community aspect.<br /><br />OpenSocial was introduced last year by Google to unify all social applications. Those implementing OpenSocial include <b>Engage.com</b>, <b>Friendster</b>, <b>LinkedIn</b>, <b>MySpace</b>, <b>Oracle</b>, <b>orkut</b>, and <b>Plaxo</b>. <br /><br /><b>Facebook</b> will not be joining the foundation nor will it implement OpenSocial. A statement from the company said, "The company will continue to evaluate partnership opportunities that will benefit the 300,000 Facebook Platform developers while improving the Facebook user experience."<br /><br />OpenSocial is possibly the stepping stone <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2008/03/opening_up_social_networks_in_the_future.php">to opening up all social networks</a>, thus Facebook may fear losing its users. <b>Scott Karp </b>of <b>Publishing 2.0</b> writes, "All that differentiates Facebook for an individual user is the presence of that users friend's on Facebook -- which forces them to use Facebook to connect with them."<br /><br />Sources: <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/yahoo-joins-social-network-group-as-google-gives-up-control/">The New York Times</a>, <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/yahoo-joins-social-network-group-as-google-gives-up-control/">Publishing 2.0</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9902585-36.html">News.com</a><br /><br /><br /> &title=<b>Google's OpenSocial Foundation</b> to be created within 90 days){kind=link}
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