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OpenSocial - What a Difference a Day Makes

Authored by Bill Tancer on November 1, 2007 - 11:55am.

Today Google made its official announcement (DMW coverage) of the networks that have joined their OpenSocial initiative. By adding sites not yet named in Tuesday's NYTimes piece, namely the addition of MySpace, we have a completely different picture of the combined OpenSocial sites compared to Facebook. By popular requests here's an updated chart:

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Bill Tancer

This post originally appeared on Bill Tancer's blog here. Bill is the General Manager, Global Research at Hitwise. His bio can be viewed here.



Published in DMW Daily, November 1, 2007
tags: Deals | Social Networking | Metrics | Google | Facebook | UGC | OpenSocial |

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Facebook - get on board

Submitted by Steven Cox (not verified) on November 2, 2007 - 4:20am.
I would like to see Facebook drop their walled-garden markup language in light of the new open standards. Whether they (or Microsoft) will do so is still in question.

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