MySpace To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)

The social networking scene has turned into a war zone. If I were planning on starting a company today, I'd try to do something in an area that people don't pay much attention to, like Google did with search in 1998.

Facebook doesn't have to join up. It'll take a half day's work to make a wrapper you can throw on your OpenSocial app to make it work in Facebook. If that.<p>It's in Facebook's interest to keep people making apps that have some attachment to Facebook proper, though. If people aren't using FBML and FQL, there's no platform lockin. I assume Facebook's going to beef up their custom offerings so that people are at least forced to make a special version of their product just for Facebook.

Wow, the world just got a lot more interesting.

One question: when is facebook joining? My Answer: It will have to break the walls eventually as they have mentioned it before themselves. When I dont know but they will do it eventually. Maybe when developers realize they can reach a much bigger market, a lot easier and faster with Opensocial compared to facebook, and they start developing a lot more products for them. Or maybe when Facebook creates its very own applications (their web-wide upcoming ad network is a sign of this) for OpenSocial.

They should've bought the URL: <a href="http://www.opensocial.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensocial.com/</a> !!!<p>

Wonder how Microsoft feels about this? Is that Facebook investment still worth as much as they paid for it? Looks like Google is consistently a few steps ahead of them whatever they do.