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.
Facebook's lack of involvement in Google's new OpenSocial developer initiative has left it out in the cold while big competitors like MySpace, Bebo and Friendster jump onboard.
In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night.
New numbers from metrics firm ComScore show that in May, Facebook appears to have surpassed MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time.
MySpace has announced a new initiative called Data Availability, a way for members to share profile data with other social and community sites across the Web.
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Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
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