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Google incorporating “Universal Activity Stream” in OpenSocial

Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch writes about the how Google is incorporating Facebook becon (yes, the controversial feature) into OpenSocial. Facebook's becon feature monitors the activity of users on partners more...
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Are Platforms the Web 2.0 eMall?

Over the past few weeks a variety of platforms have launched including: Facebook, Meebo and Google OpenSocial. At a basic level, each one of these platforms allows a company to set up shop within these more...
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Plaxo Pulse goes OpenSocial

Orkut, Ning, Plaxo, Ning, hi5, Friendster - all had early access to Google's OpenSocial API and have started rolling out products for customers. Plaxo Pulse, the online calendar and address book is the more...
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Google prepares to launch OpenSocial

Google will be launching OpenSocial (OS) on November 1st. OpenSocial will enable developers to create applications that work on all social networks. Opensocial is billed as Social Network platform consisting more...
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Mark Cuban: Facebook, and OpenSocial

Mark Cuban is, as usual, insightful when he describes the potential of Facebook profiles to be used as the basis for smarter social applications outside of Facebook. His call for a truly open Facebook more...
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