It's always fun to hear what Google employees call various projects when they think no one is listening. In 2007 they called the upstart Hulu joint venture Clown Co.

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Confirmation of Google's entry into the open friend space established by Facebook and MySpace.

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Giant social networks Myspace and Facebook have plans to expand beyond their walls. Myspace announced on Thursday its Data Availability platform and Facebook countered quickly with Facebook Connect.

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Long touted as the secure space for social networking, and largely true, Facebook has finally been hacked. The attack comes as a Secret Crush request, a widget that the user downloads to find out who on the network has eyes for them.

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There has been a lot of talk around the web on why OpenSocial is just not open enough ( here, here and here). But for now lets rest the speculation of all the bloggers aside and have a look at the emergence of all theses platforms.

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13 Power User Tips for OpenSocial Developers

Google OpenSocial Review As you likely have heard, Google has launched OpenSocial that provides a common set of APIs ( Definition: The common code shared among platforms and developers of mini-applications ) for social applications across multiple websites. Orkut Sandbox

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Each time we get a pretty illustration, a new buzzphrase beginning with Open, and a YouTube video talking about how awesome its gonna be. Meanwhile, Google gets a buttload of press coverage and the problems (if they are, actually, problems) are still unsolved.

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At Six Apart, we'll be supporting the new OpenSocial initiative to make an open platform for social applications on the web. But for us, it's not about Google or Facebook. It's about the web itself.

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