Open Social gaining support

Yahoo! has just announced that is backing up Open Social.

Google created OpenSocial. From Google website:

OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites.
The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

To encourage its support, Google has created with other industry players the Opensocial Foundation.

Facebook has not yet joined the initiative, but probably will follow soon..

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