OpenSocial: Led By Google, Social Networks Band To Take On Facebook
Widgets want to be free!
Great move by ex-Microsoft DPE Vic Gundotra to establish a standard platform where Widgets can live and prosper. This certainly was the subtext of the Web 2.0 Summit, it's a Widgets Web now and Facebook is just an incubator.
OpenSocial details coming out - Marc Cantor who knows this space better then anyone asks where's Yahoo?
The most popular Facebook Widgets - iLike, Slide, Frixter and RockYou, are hopping-on to OpenSocial.
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
I gota ask where's Microsoft? The DPE Group has spent the last year caring for Enthusiasts and Designers while losing touch with their core community of developers.