Friendster now allowing third party applications
Social networking service Friendster has announced that they are now letting third party developers to code applications for their service.
These applications would also be supported on rival services.
Incidentally, Friendster is already a member of Google’s OpenSocial initiative which allows developers to code application for a single platform which [...]

Facebook announces Facebook Open Platform
Social networking service Facebook has announced that they are now planning to open source part of their application development platform.
They have named it Facebook Open Platform.
The company said that they would open source “most” of the code that runs its platform in addition to implementations of its most popular methods [...]

LinkedIn launches Intelligent Application Platform
LinkedIn has launched its developer’s platform which would enable third party coders to build functionalities on this web based service.
LinkedIn has also launched the beta version of a redesigned home page. This new UI is designed to be more business-minded.
The company said that they want this online destination to be a [...]

Google OpenSocial to challenge services like Facebook
Google now aims to challenge Facebook by allowing third party developers to code applications for their services.
Their new OpenSocial system would provide standardized tools to build applications which would work with several of their services.
This would prevent a situation where the developers have to code same application again and [...]