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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. There are multiple standards that must be supported to launch your application on MySpace and other social networks so far.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Application developers are going to go to where the heat is, and that heat is red hot at Facebook But longer term, this may change. Platform???