Open Social Releases Update, But still where is MySpace

You’d figure that any improvements would be passed along but then if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com The OpenSocial team at Google today announced an updated JavaScript API. While the actual content of the update is rather technical, Google engineer Cassie Doll says that it addresses “the most immediate pain points” for developers. But the big albatross around OpenSocial’s neck is the question of just what MySpace is going to do. Written by Josh Catone / December 21, 2007 9:55 PM / 2 Comments In November, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe announced support for OpenSocial saying that the MySpace/Google partnership “spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications.” However, in the 7 weeks since that announcement, OpenSocial widgets still haven’t been deployed on MySpace, and to many, OpenSocial still feels like alpha software. Read/WriteTalk’s Sean Ammirati pressed Google Developer Advocate Kevin Marks on that point during an interview about OpenSocial last week, but Google is reluctant to put a date on MySpace’s adoption of their platform.