Yahoo! set to join an alliance led by Google

Posted: Thursday, Mar 27, 2008 at 2212 hrs IST
Updated: Thursday, Mar 27, 2008 at 2212 hrs IST

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: And Wade Chambers, vice president for platforms at Yahoo, praised Google's stewardship of the standard so far.

The foundation, to be created within 90 days, will ‘‘ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the Web’’, the companies said.

Yahoo gave no details on when or how it would adopt the OpenSocial standards. So far, only MySpace and Orkut, Google's social network, have introduced OpenSocial.

—Reuters / Miguel Helft...

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