Professional social-networking site LinkedIn will open its platform to third party developers so they can build applications that can be used by the company's 17 million members.
Google and Facebook have signed up to an alliance, DataPortability, which aims to unify identity and data management across various social-networking platforms.
Google, Yahoo, and News Corp's MySpace announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kickstarted last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on social networking sites.
Five months ago, Facebook changed the social networking race when it released its developers platform. Now, the other Web companies are looking at their own strategies in an effort to keep up with that success.
Google have taken the online social networking battle to a new level with the announcement of a new set of APIs that can be used to create applications on any site that wishes to participate.
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