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Few days ago Google lost to Microsoft for buying a “share” on Facebook. Microsoft pays $240 million for 1.6 percent share of Facebook a “social networking site”. After few days Google announced its new social networking called OpenSocial. OpenSocial is a set of common APIs (Application Program Interface) for building social applications across the web means you have less to learn to build for multiple websites.

Lots of companies had pledge their support for OpenSocial namely Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Google’s Orkut, Plaxo, Six Apart, Salesforce.com, Tianji, Viadeo, Xing and the latest added from the group “MySpace”. MySpace the largest social network and Facebook archrival announced it’s support to Google’s OpenSocial.

Google spokesperson said ” It’s been a very fluid process for us, we want as many developers to join OpenSocial as soon as possible “. OpenSocial specifications are designed to evolve through contribution from the open source community.