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Speaking during a press conference about MySpace joining the OpenSocial train, Google CEO Eric Schmidt painted the big picture. “The broader story is the Web has moved to the next state. We knew the Web would have social framework and we knew it would be would be standard, open and extensible.” Schmidt said the Google had been working for more than a year with MySpace in the social area.

MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe said, “OpenSocial APIs will be the defacto development platform for social application development.” Until recently, MySpace was working on its own markup languages, similar to what Facebook has done.

Bebo, another popular social network, has also signed on to join the Google OpenSocial train. So far Google has amassed about a dozen partners in addition to MySpace and Bebo–Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Google orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

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