while we all dream about the better world for tomorrow, the OPEN Social Web, something important happens- http://www.opensocial.org/
if course it was expected. the other OPEN and SOCIAL iniziatives/ projects are already in place. it's just that now we welcome a non-profit Foundation.

The specific purpose of the new nonprofit, according to a release, is "to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the Web." It's a particularly crucial move for Google, which has been eager to emphasize that OpenSocial is a community standard, not a Mountain View project.
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