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We discussed about Google’s Maka Maka, a decentralizedsocial networking network. Now, it’s confirmed that Google is gonna roll out something like that. But the project which was codenamed maka maka has got an official name OpenSocial. And it’s even bigger than we thought of.

What is OpenSocial?

OpenSocial is set of two way open APIs which will letdevelopers to create applications for various social networking platforms in one go. Now with Open Social developers won’t complaint of cost of learning each platform and then creating application on them. The application will now get portablity and they will be compatible across many social networks.

Why do we need OpenSocial?

There are tons of social networking sites out there, we create profiles, invite friends, interact with them. Won’t it be cool if we could track the activities of our friends, share and interact with them through a single network which could communicate with the other networks. That’s where OpenSocial will come into play. It will provide a communication channel between various social networks.

Happy developers.

Developers will get an instant flood of potential users. OpenSocial will serve to over 100 millions of users. What developers just need to do is customise their current applications (facebook applications) to be compatible with opensocial. Facebook currently serves 50 millions users. So, the developers will in total get access to 150 millions users.

OpenSocial is launching on?

Rumours have it that it will be launched today, but rumours also have it that the APIs are not stable yet and it could take somewhere around 30 more days to come out. Even orkut is not ready to talk with this new API. Lets see..