19 posts and columns on OpenSocial

Xobni Launches App Market Using OpenSocial

in Social on May 3, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

Xobni, the email-as-a-platform company, is opening up its Microsoft Outlook sidebar app to other developers. The sidebar will now include a “Gadget Store” with free and paid apps like Evernote, Yammer, Facebook and Salesforce.

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (and Google Exec) Joe Kraus Moves to Google Ventures

in News on November 3, 2009 at 5:14 am PT

Joe Kraus–the longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who sold his most recent start-up, JotSpot, to Google in 2006 and has been a director of product management since–has moved to its Google Ventures unit as a partner, said several sources. Sources added that Kraus is likely to be the first of several well-known appointments at the relatively new venture arm of the search giant.
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What Happened at South By Southwest? A Google Guy Explains.

in Media on March 16, 2009 at 6:40 am PT

South By Southwest isn’t just a chance for Webby folks to drink. They also spent a lot of time thinking about the big issues of the day: Namely, what does Twitter mean, and what should we do about it?
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Yahoo Contracts Open Social Disease

in News on March 25, 2008 at 8:41 am PT

With Microsoft’s (MSFT) hostile bid looking more and more like an inevitability, Yahoo (YHOO) has apparently decided it’s got nothing to lose by joining Google’s (GOOG) “Everybody-But-Facebook Coalition.” This morning the company threw its support behind OpenSocial–a Google-led initiative to foster interoperability between social applications–and with MySpace (NWS) and Google, it announced the OpenSocial Foundation, [...]

Bobbing for Bebo

in Social on March 13, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Anything to Complicate the Microsoft Bid, Eh Yahoo?

in News on March 12, 2008 at 3:25 pm PT

Google’s (GOOG) “Everybody-But-Facebook Coalition” may soon have a new member: Yahoo (YHOO). The New York Times reports that the company intends to join OpenSocial, a Google-led alliance that aims to create a set of common APIs that will enable developers to write applications for a broad range of Web sites and services without any individual [...]

Microsoft's New Antitrust Opera

in News on December 13, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Microsoft’s New Antitrust Opera

in News on December 13, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

In Your Facebook, Google …

in Social on December 13, 2007 at 4:07 am PT

Facebook threw a well-timed sucker punch at Google’s “Everybody-But-Facebook” OpenSocial initiative this week, extending Facebook Platform–a set of tools that allows developers to build applications for Facebook–to other social-networking sites and platforms. “[We] want to share the benefits of our work by enabling other social sites to use our platform architecture as a model,” Facebook [...]

Max Levchin Speaks Softly (But Carries a Big Widget) About OpenSocial!

in News on November 6, 2007 at 12:03 am PT

Marc Canter isn’t the only one talking out loud about Google’s OpenSocial initiative. Max Levchin, founder, chairman and CEO of Slide–the No. 1 widget maker on Facebook–sent out an email (posted in full after the jump) on Friday about the development. His point? For makers of third-party applications for social networks, their bread is buttered [...]

Marc Canter Speaks Out and Loud About OpenSocial! (Were You Surprised?)

in News, November 6, 2007 at 12:02 am PT

Last Week in BoomTown: Peter Thiel, Writers' Strike, OpenSocial, Hulu!

in News, November 5, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Facebook's OpenSocial Invite Apparently Lost in Mail

in Social, November 2, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Facebook’s OpenSocial Invite Apparently Lost in Mail

in Social, November 2, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Everybody-But- Facebook Coalition Announces Membership Drive

in Social, November 1, 2007 at 12:58 pm PT

Is This That 'Social Graph' Zuckerberg's Always Droning On About?

in Social, October 31, 2007 at 11:54 am PT

Is This That ‘Social Graph’ Zuckerberg’s Always Droning On About?

in Social, October 31, 2007 at 11:54 am PT

Welcome to the OpenSocial

in Social, October 31, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Rumors, Rumors Everywhere, but Not a Lot to Think (Except AOL-Quigo?)

in News, October 31, 2007 at 3:54 am PT