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“Start Pages: The Next Social Networks” |
I know I’m late (because I’m on a trip through Germany; next stop Bochum), but this is really important (to us and to most of our readers, I guess):
Google today made an announcement that could prove to be not only important to the evolution of OpenSocial and iGoogle, but also to the social networking sector itself. Google announced a new developer sandbox for iGoogle that includes support for their OpenSocial APIs. Essentially, Google is working toward turning their start page property into a social network, though they haven’t overtly said so. Google’s move makes this officially the start of a trend we’re seeing in start pages to get more social, and an idea we’ve been pushing at RWW for the past year.
Read on: Start Pages: The Next Social Networks – ReadWriteWeb
