On November 1, 2007, Google launched OpenSocial, a set of APIs that leverage JavaScript and HTML for creating applications that access friends and update feeds from any compliant social network.

[Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed piece by Lee Lorenzen, an investor in Facebook applications.] Last week, Google hosted a meet-up for Facebook application developers. The goal of the event was to ...

A host of Silicon Valley companies led by Google are ganging together to take on Facebook — the social networking company that is the toast of the town right now. A group of Facebook’s cross-town ...

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The whole premise of efforts like OpenSocial is that social business activities should not be isolated from the work going on in other applications. While everyone is off looking at Google+, the last ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Almost four months after Google emerged from the background in social networking with its OpenSocial initiative, there is no shortage of skepticism around the project. The initiative, which will ...

Having been on holiday, I missed the excitement over Google's OpenSocial, blogged below, but at least I'm in time to observe the inevitable backlash. Having read the news reports, three things are ...

Last night we outlined the details emerging about Google’s social networking initiative, OpenSocial. Below are some screenshots of OpenSocial in action that we didn’t have time to include in that post ...