Following its name change and $6.8m financing round last April, the European social networking site Netlog has been coy about its platform strategy. In November, they revealed its intentions to launch a developer platform with support for custom APIs. [img src="http://sale-online.click/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/opensocial.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]At the same time its CEO said that it would be keeping off the OpenSocial bandwagon - now a project relatively well supported by social Web services far and wide.
Now the company is taking a closer look at OpenSocial. Today Netlog is scheduled to announce at Google I/O in San Francisco that it is party to the initiative, making available the option for applications developed using OpenSocial standards to be used by the network’s own 35 million users, joining other social networks including MySpace, hi5, and Orkut in the initiative. Netlog also says it will play its role as a European evangelist for OpenSocial throughout the continent this summer.