Media News - Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Yahoo joins OpenSocial

The OpenSocial developer platform established by Google in November took another major step forward Tuesday with the announcement that Yahoo, the rival web company, would also support the service. OpenSocial allows developers to create applications using standardised code that will work across a number of websites, rather than having to design new applications each time. Yahoo joins Bebo, MySpace, LinkedIn, Orkut and Plaxo in supporting the Google service, which will make it easier for external developers to add features like video players, games and messaging to parts of its web offering. Google has been careful to describe OpenSocial as a non-commercial initiative, although the web search giant has dedicated staff working full-time on the project. But Google announced Tuesday that OpenSocial is now being established as a neutral, not-for-profit foundation that will work with the developer community to expand and improve its specification. Google said the OpenSocial Foundation will offer formal guidelines and an intellectual property framework to developers, with input from its own technical teams, Yahoo and MySpace. Developers contribute to OpenSocial under a creative commons copyright licence, which gives users flexibility but lets the creator retain ownership. (The Guardian)

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