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digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/OpenSocial_Three_Big_Concerns'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The Google-lead initiative called OpenSocial is all the buzz this week with anyone interested in online innovation, but beyond all

Today at the Defrag Conference, Kevin Marks from Google gave a presentation on OpenSocial. Before working at Google, Kevin was Principal Engineer at Technorati. He's also well known as one

Just last October, we reported that Ning hosted half a million social networks, and today, the social network provider announced that it has hit 1 million networks. Ning, which hosts

Today, the web office company Zoho, whose line of products competes with other web applications like Google Docs and Gmail as well as desktop-based suites like Microsoft Office, has launched

Yesterday evening, our own Marshall Kirkpatrick was a guest on G4TV's "Attack of the Show" television program to discuss Google's OpenSocial platform. Marshall gave his thoughts on why Google formed

Charles Knight from AltSearchEngines is blogging up a storm at Defrag. Here are his latest posts from the conference: Disruptive Technologies & Innovation Google and OpenSocial Next-Level Discovery Panel Enterprise

When the Google-led OpenSocial campaign launched in October 2007 it aimed to give developers a common environment that application publishers could publish widgets to with one set of code, deployable

It's been a little over a year since Google announced OpenSocial, a common API for social applications across multiple websites. It's an aggressive undertaking: an underlying technology designed to help

The big news of the day is that MySpace, the leading social networking platform, has joined Google's OpenSocial project as a partner. OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for

Update: Since the publication of this post, Amazon's PR people have contacted me a number of times to request that we remove this coverage based on a draft press