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Google announced its OpenSocial, which the Guardian's Jemima Kiss described as their "new social net project". In terms of social networks, Facebook started opening ever so slightly with its apps platform, with MySpace recently following suit. But both Facebook and MySpace still are building relatively closed APIs, although MySpace as been a bit guarded about just how open their platform will be, irony noted.
As for Google and OpenSocial, ZDNet called Google's strategy "combine and conquer". David Card at Jupiter Research said that the agreement includes "everybody but those that matter". (Thanks to Jacqui Chang at ArsTechnica for that link.)
But as a developer or a user, would the openness or lack thereof, make you more likely or less likely to use a social network? Or if you don't like that question and wish that all social networks would go the way of Microsoft Bob, take Mashable's poll asking: Which social network do you hope dies a slow and painful death?
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