To ensure neutrality and sustainability of Social Open as an open specification and community to create social applications “. In a decidedly “open source”, Google, Yahoo and MySpace.com, (owned by News Corp..) Just given birth to a non-profit foundation, the Open Social Foundation. Launched in October 2007 at the initiative of Google to avoid a proprietary development of applications for social networks, Open Social wishes become a universal standard of development and thus avoid a fragmentation of the landscape.”
Developers and websites have an assurance that OpenSocial will always remain free and open” and insists Joe Kraus, head of product management at Google.On a daily basis, Open Social Foundation will have three main tasks: to maintain the technical specifications under Creative Commons license, ensuring decisions by the community and users, and support the development of Shindig, an implementation or open source version of Open Social conducted under the projects of the Apache Foundation.Facebook Social resists Open
Social Open has attracted powerful networks like MySpace, LinkedIn, Bebo (just acquired by AOL) and Plaxo, along with their own initiatives.The only exception Facebook. Despite statements of support for open source initiatives, the site created by Mark Zuckerberg does not adopt it, or join the foundation OpenSocial. It nevertheless indicates explore ideas for partnerships that can stimulate the approximately 300 000 developers Facebook.Just like OpenSocial, open standards such as OAuth or OpenID for digital identification, are hot topics for a year within the developer community of social media. With the support of heavyweights IT sector, including providing financial support, these projects previously marginal take a new dimension to the passage and gain legitimacy, the key to impose their technology.