It is told that Yahoo now intends to join Google for the OpenSocial, which is a Google led alliance. OpenSocial is to expand general standards so as to generate platform for developers to create programs, which run on social networks and other website also, according to Yahoo. This is especially encouraged to boost the Yahoo’s search results and for further recognition it is the world’s search giant. In addition, Yahoo’s participation “would mean that the site with the largest group of users, and with the largest base of registered users, would be joining OpenSocial,” said Charlene Li, an analyst with Forrester Research. The creators of several popular applications such as Facebook have already stated that they plan to adapt their programs to kowtow with the OpenSocial standard.

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Google’s open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. (see Techmeme). Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google’s open party. So far, besides Google’s Orkut social net, LinkedIn, hi5, XING, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning have joined the party.

Oracle and salesforce.com are also supporting Google’s OpenSocial efforts, which indicates that they have plans to add social networking elements to their application platforms. OpenSocial will officially launch on Thursday.

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