MySpace in Google software deal

by Yommie | November 2, 2007 at 07:05 am | 668 views | 4 comments

Google and MySpace have announced they are collaborating in a deal which could shake up the social networking industry.

MySpace has agreed to join OpenSocial, Google's new platform designed to allow developers to build applications that will work on any website.

MySpace joins other sites including Bebo, LinkedIn and Orkut in signing up to OpenSocial.

'Next stage'

The participation of MySpace, which is the biggest network with more than 200 million users, will encourage many more developers to get involved.

It will also be seen as a major challenge to Facebook, the fast-growing network which opened up its site to outside software developers in May.

In a press conference in California, Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt and Chris De Wolfe, president of MySpace, said the two companies had been working on the deal for more than a year.

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Brian A Kennedy

at 08:04 on November 2nd, 2007

good stuff:

Yommie, this should be mighty interesting... good highlight.

Christopher Byrne

at 08:37 on November 2nd, 2007

It is a shame that two of the biggest violaters of privacy concepts on the Internet are getting together.

jordan

at 10:40 on November 2nd, 2007

Yep, between those two, The Matrix has you!

jordan

at 09:30 on November 2nd, 2007

So will there be a new social-networking celeb, then? MySpace gave us Tila Tequila, who's reaching the pseudo-fame apotheosis with an MTV reality show, so the field is now wide open...