Open Social is place for API(Appplication Programming interfaces) library for helping developers make their own social network applications like Myspace,facebook, orkut etc. As usual this Open Social resource is powered by internet giant Google. 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, orkut, Netlog, Sonico.com, Friendster, Ning and Yahoo!.
OpenSocial is set of two way open APIs which will let developers to create applications for various social networking platforms in one go. Now with Open Social developers won’t complaint of cost of learning each platform and then creating application on them. The application will now get portablity and they will be compatible across many social networks.
There are tons of social networking sites out there, we create profiles, invite friends, interact with them. Won’t it be cool if we could track the activities of our friends, share and interact with them through a single network which could communicate with the other networks. That’s where OpenSocial will come into play. It will provide a communication channel between various social networks.
Developers will get an instant flood of potential users. OpenSocial will serve to over 100 millions of users. What developers just need to do is customise their current applications (facebook applications) to be compatible with opensocial. Facebook currently serves 50 millions users. So, the developers will in total get access to 150 millions users.
Visit the official open Social website here ==> http://www.opensocial.org/