Yesterday InternetNews.com, a website owned by the JupiterMedia Corporation, announced that this week competitors to Google’s OpenSocial Platform emerged. Four social networking sites, FaceBook, Bebo, LinkedIn, and Friendster, stated the launch of a set of API’s compatible with other social networks. Facebook announced the launch of the Facebook Markup Language (FBML), available to developers to integrate applications with other social networks using the Facebook Platform.

Bebo held an official launch of its Open Application Platform, which conforms with Facebook’s Platform and Google’s OpenSocial. Within the same week, both LinkedIn and Friendster publicized the launch of their available APIs, based on OpenSocial. No doubt that we will soon see other social networking sites following suit.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3716366

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