Yahoo! to Support Google’s OpenSocial
Posted by jonathan at 10:33am EST on 03/25/2008
Mashable reporter, Stan Schroeder, brings this one to us here at Google Inside. Yahoo! is said to be supporting the OpenSocial initiative that Google started four months ago.
As a recap, here is a quick list of sites/companies already supporting OpenSocial. Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.
“Yahoo! believes in supporting community-driven industry specifications and expects that OpenSocial will fuel innovation and make the web more relevant and more enjoyable to millions of users,” said Wade Chambers, Vice President – Platforms, Yahoo!. “Our support builds on similar efforts with the OpenID community and will expand the opportunity for developers and publishers to benefit from an open and increasingly social web.”
It’s great to see Yahoo! supporting innovation and progress within the tech community, but it’s going to be really interesting to see how this actually integrates into Yahoo! products.
But as a last note, this is what Yahoo! has to say about the future of OpenSocial. “In time, OpenSocial will unlock more powerful and pervasive social capabilities across the entire web, as developers’ applications can easily reach users across any of the websites, web applications, or social networks they use.”
