Zude has always been about the provision of complete control to users that want to create their own networking experience, which has led Zude to further push its data portability initiative by supporting OpenSocial on the Zude platform. See here for more information.
What this inclusion does is provides a number of extended options that are passed onto the user, including additional security and functionality. Users can choose to allow or prevent OpenSocial data sharing, or selectively designate which data elements are available for OpenSocial's protocols.
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Having already been in support of Facebook's open platform, there's now an opportunity for developers to create applications, or utilize Zude's cross-platform applications to the benefit of their own users. Zude's implementation of OpenSocial has in fact been integrated with Facebook. The release of ZudeCONTACTS was used as an example of how this integration is already being used: the OpenSocial protocol is used to deliver Zude's contact information directly into Facebook, so Zude users on Facebook can readily find each other. While this isn't a two-way street (meaning you can't find your Facebook friends on Zude), you get the point.