Myspace joins Google & Co. in OpenSocial

no way you haven’t heard about this yet… …coverage worth reading:

Marc Canter – Open Social compatibility: social networks and applications vendors working together
Marc Andreessen – Report from the front: Tonight’s launch of Open Social (Ning is supporting OpenSocial as well, examples here)
John  Battelle – MySpace Tosses in With Google

del.icio.us bookmarks for August 26th through September 9th

A VC: Biz Stone on Read/Write Talk –
MySpace: How To Devalue a Platform in Three Easy Steps – SWiK –
Going Viral like the Common Cold (Not Always a Good Thing) –
MMOGCHART.COM –
GigaOM A First-Hand Look at a Chinese Second Life, HiPiHi « –
Retro MacOS Theme –

10 reasons virb sucks big time

supposed Myspace-killer virb.com had its public launch a week or so ago. for those who haven’t checked it out: virb claims to be “Myspace done right” (that’s not the official tagline of course, rather the meme that’s been spreading). “done right” in a techno-elitist way the majority of Myspace-users would never care about. somehow hardcore [...]

roundup for 2007-01-19 … Myspace / Music 2.0

Myspace users experienced a suspicious anomaly yesterday, as adding new (flash-based) widgets to Myspace profile-pages didn’t work for a few hours (existing widget-integrations have not been affected). while TechCrunch reports that Myspace – unofficially – claims a developer-bug to be the reason for this behaviour, skeptics might take this as proove that the free-ride for [...]