Today we are pleased to
announce
that Google is joining together with Yahoo! and MySpace in the creation
of a non-profit foundation for the open and transparent governance of the OpenSocial
specifications and intellectual property. This foundation, modeled after the community-led and
industry-supported OpenID Foundation, will seek to ensure that the technology behind
OpenSocial remains implementable by all, freely and without restriction, in perpetuity. The
establishment of the foundation is a necessary and exciting next step toward an open model for
application syndication via an increasingly socially-enabled Internet, and we
invite and encourage your involvement as we complete this process over the next
several months.
Additionally we are pleased to be a part of the launch
of opensocial.org, the new official home
for the OpenSocial specifications and developer community. While we are still in the early
stages of putting the new site together, we wanted to open the site and the process
immediately for community feedback and review.
So please join us,
Yahoo!, MySpace, and all of the other OpenSocial containers and application providers, in
extending a warm welcome to the community in a spirit of collaboration and rapid iteration, as
we move forward with the establishment of the OpenSocial Foundation and look ahead to the
continued growth of the social web.
