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  • OpenSocial Foundation open for business soon

    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.

  • LinkedIn looking for a suitor, maybe

    There is speculation that a big name prospective buyer is looking to acquire business social network LinkedIn, after its co-founder and chairman said that he would be open to an offer.

  • Plaxo 'screen scraper' tool offends Facebook

    Social-networking site Facebook has fought off a major-league blogger's bid to extract his own contact list from the service, using a utility from rival site Plaxo, highlighting the unanswered question of who owns data associated with people's identities on social-networking sites.

  • Google, Facebook share data with Plaxo, LinkedIn

    Google and Facebook have signed up to an alliance, DataPortability, which aims to unify identity and data management across various social-networking platforms.

  • Google's OpenSocial opens new online battle

    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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  • Gawker founder facing Facebook ban

    Facebook has taken Gawker Media founder Nick Denton to task over some screenshots of a member's profile that he posted on Gawker.com on Tuesday, Portfolio.com reports.

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