Yahoo! announced today that they will be joining the Google backed project OpenSocial. Both companies believe bringing social internet users more options other than say Facebook would benefit all. Yahoo! sees this as an opportunity to open itself up to more 3rd party developers.

What is OpenSocial? Well according to Wikipedia:

OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based social network applications, developed by Google, and released November 1, 2007. Applications implementing the OpenSocial APIs will be interoperable with any social network system that supports them, including features on sites such as Hi5.com, MySpace, Friendster and orkut.

I personally can’t wait to see Google and Yahoo! develop FluffFriends on crack. Take that cute and cuddly Facebook beasts!

[more at TechCrunch]

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