Will Facebook now be forced to join OpenSocial?

More hoopla on the Google OpenSocial announcement: Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed). Pretty good info and the article pretty much ends with this post’s title “Will Facebook now be forced to join OpenSocial?”. After reading the complete article, I had to wonder myself – here’s a clip from the TechCrunch article to get you started:

Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle.


MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative. Silicon Alley Insider reported the MySpace rumor earlier today. We’ve confirmed that from an independent source, as well as the fact that Six Apart is joining. Per the update below, Google has also confirmed Bebo is joining.


Google will be making an announcement today. MySpace and Six Apart join Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle as announced Google partners. No word on whether MySpace will continue with efforts to complete its own recently announced platform, but the answer is probably yes. They are likely to simply do both (Update: see below).


Suddenly, within just the last couple of days, the entire social networking world has announced that they are ganging up to take on Facebook, and Google is their Quarterback in the big game.


Read more here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/confirmed-myspace-to-join-google-opensocial/

I liked this piece because it made a good case for OpenSocial and left me wondering what the next few months will bring. There’s no use linking to related articles at this point as new commentary is popping up every minute and updates on the OpenSocial front keep coming. I’m sure we can look forward to more announcements and interesting changes on this and related subjects.

Use Technology to Expandify Your Vocabulation!

Funny tech screen shot from WorseThanFailure - the sad thing is I had to read it a few times (even with the big, red arrow) to “get” the misspellinatin’!

There are a few more images on the page and a running list of ” fun error messages and other visual oddities from the world of IT.” that is updated daily. Freaks, geeks, nerds, techies and the likes might find this stuff amusing (uhm, I do and am a little bit of each of those..). Everyone else might want to move along, nothing to see here..