SubscribeGoogle China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial
Just in last post, we wrote about Tianya.cn’s OpenSocial platform, and said it is the third website in China which goes into OpenSocial. In Google Developer Day 2008 in Beijing in yesterday, Kaifu Lee announced Google’s OpenSocial strategy in China.
In addition to MySpace.cn, CityIn and Tianya.cn, seven other Chinese social networking sites will jointly promote OpenSocial platform on their sites, including Xiaonei, 51.com, Douban, Hainei, Tianji, Yiqi.com and a web-base online casual game website 51wan.com. So both Xiaonei and 51.com, two SNS with large user base, will support OpenSocial standard. All these websites are leading or at least 2nd tier SNS in China, if all of them really embrace OpenSocial platform, it would be a great news for those widget developers.
Partly because of lack of hosting sites, the development of widgets in China is far behind the development in Silicon Valley, esp. when you consider how quick a copycats could emerge in China. Now, with the efforts of OpenSocial by Google, we can see the feasibility of building widgets and third-party apps. On the other hand, if the main stream SNS in China adopt OpenSocial platform, it will, at least to some extent, reduce the complexity of developing apps to be in compliance with different platforms.
Of course, there are still some big giants in China’s web who might not join this OpenSocial alliance, such as Tencent and Baidu. What they plan to do will affect the landscape of open platform in China. However, we don’t expect they will launch open platform in near future.
In order to promote OpenSocial in China, Google China will held a OpenSocial hackathon event in Beijing on June 13.
-
Related Posts
5 Responses to “Google China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial”
Post a comment
-
Search
-
About
China Web2.0 Review is a blog dedicated to track web2.0 development, review and profile web2.0 applications, business and services in China.
-
Email Subscribe
-
Recent Posts
- Don’t Just Talk At Me, Talk With Me
- BlogBus to Launch SNS Service
- The Coming War Between Baidu and Taobao
- 56.com Launches SNS and Apps Platform
- ChinaQ: A Virtual World by China Telecom
- Brand Management in the Wired Era
- Baidu To Launch Online Payment Service and C2C Platform Soon
- Events: Facebook Developer Garage, WordCamp China and Software Freedom Day
- Chinese Leaders Have Their Fans Site
- Event Report: The State of Web Analytics Industry in China
-
What's Happening in China's Internet
-
Event
[...] Google China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial : China Web2.0 Review (tags: opensocial sns) [...]
Imagethief Blogroll…
My blogroll has finally got a bit unwieldy for the sidebar, and I’ve been getting complaints from people…
[...] Google China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial All these websites are leading or at least 2nd tier SNS in China, if all of them really embrace OpenSocial platform, it would be a great news… [...]
[...] Comment on Google China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial by… OpenSocial All these websites are leading or at least 2nd tier SNS in China, if all of them really embrace OpenSocial platform, it would be a… [...]
[...] CWR: If your resource only allows you to put effort into one platform in China, which one you will choose, Xiaonei.com, MYOP from Comsenz, OpenSocial from Google, or others? David: First, there is also 51.com’s open platform and OpenSocial is only a spec. The only Open Social site in China is myspace.cn. At the current time, there is no real viable platform for third party commercial developers. Myspace.cn has the except comprehensive platform and commercial policy. [...]