“God, history just keep repeating itself, doesn’t it? The parallels with the history of search are eerie. Someone leads (Friendster/Alta Vista), then falters, others launch, and catch up, a market leader emerges (Yahoo/MySpace), then a new entrant sprints ahead (Google/Facebook), then the ‘old’ leaders have to partner to respond,” said Federated Media founder John Battelle.
Battelle wrote on his blog earlier this afternoon that Chris DeWolfe (co-creator of MySpace), Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google), and Joe Kraus (co-founder of Excite.com and JotSpot) that MySpace will be adopting Google’s OpenSocial standard APIs.
Facebook on the other hand still has not shown any sign of joining Google OpenSocial. Facebook provides their developers two types of APIs, FBML Test Console and API Test Console.
“Despite reports, Facebook has still not been briefed on OpenSocial. When we have had a chance to understand the technology, then Facebook will evaluate participation relative to the benefits to its 50 million users and 100,000 platform developers,” said Facebook’s Director of Corporate Communications Brandee Barker.
However, Google and Facebook are currently talking according to a couple sources. Will Facebook join the OpenSocial bandwagon? Stay tuned. Here is the official press release.
