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Web companies settle on OpenSocial 0.9 specs

 

Published 12/18/2008 by Stephen Shankland at CNET News - Business Tech

MySpace, Google, Yahoo, and other allies have settled on what they think should be in version 0.9 of OpenSocial, a standard designed to make it easier for programmers to write Wegb applications that will work on multiple Web sites. The draft version of OpenSocial includes a number of new ... Originally posted at Webware (link)

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