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This morning, Yahoo announced that it is joining OpenSocial, and along with MySpace and Google, forming the OpenSocial Foundation to “ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.”
Meanwhile, Facebook announced its own set of standards back in December based on its platform, which, Bebo leveraged to allow developers to port their Facebook apps over to its network. In turn, there are now two standards with huge players behind them, with OpenSocial having the majority of partners, but Facebook having the majority of actual applications that people can use.
Will Facebook ultimately sign on to OpenSocial, or will we be living in a world with two (or more) major social networking platforms for the forseeable future? Today’s poll:
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