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Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)

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http://community.brighton.ac.uk/jd29/weblog/17763.html

Full story at: http://jondron.net/cofind/frshowresource.php?tid=5325&resid=1342

This is probably the biggest thing ever to happen in the world of social software.

Wow.

MySpace, Bebo and SixApart are in on the deal that already includes Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle (yes, Oracle). As the article says, checkmate for Facebook, but it can’t be long before they join in.

I can hardly wait to start playing.

The range of possible educational uses is staggeringly large. Maybe not as big as the invention of the Web itself, but potentially as transforming. I think that we have just seen the start of a new era.
Created:Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:40:06 GMT

I am a professional learner, employed as a Full Professor and Associate Dean, Learning & Assessment, at Athabasca University, where I research lots of things broadly in the area of learning and technology, and I teach mainly in the School of Computing & Information Systems. I am a proud Canadian, though I was born in the UK. I am married, with two grown-up children, and three growing-up grandchildren. We all live in beautiful Vancouver.

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