avc - opensocial
Ganging Up On The Leader - Fred Wilson
No wonder the other players in social networking are ganging up on them. The NY Times has a story up that explains how Google has roped a number of other social nets (including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning) into supporting their “open social net platform”. What this means is you can develop on top of the Google tools and immediately run on many platforms instead of just one.