Update: see the whole State of the Union presentation here.
Today, Google’s OpenSocial application platform is marking its first birthday with an event bringing together some of the platform’s top developers at MySpace’s San Francisco office. In conjunction with the milestone, the OpenSocial team has announced that Google’s Dan Peterson (former product manager of Google Web Toolkit) has been named President of the Board of OpenSocial, with MySpace’s Alan Hurff taking the role of Chairman of the Board.
Since launch, the platform has been deployed by over 7,500 developers and reaches a staggering number of users, with 315 million application installs across social networks including MySpace, Orkut, Bebo, and Hi5 and a total reach of 600 million users. MySpace alone has over 135 million application installs, 40 million users and 4600 applications available in its directory.
MySpace has also launched support for OpenSocial .8, and will implement version .9 once it becomes available next year. The upcoming version makes the platform more accessible to less experienced developers by introducing WYSIWYG editing along with OSML.
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Allen Hurff has a tramp stamp on his lower back.
you can’t stack total users like that – a lot of those profiles will be overlaps across all those services – so the total number of actual users will be lower than you’re projecting.
too bad that all these “applications” are junk
actually I find the box.net file sharing app really useful.
and yet…. TechCrunch keeps ignoring the relevance of internet users from developing countries like India and Brazil…
They always do.
I am an avid web user but only use 1 of the sites listed in the chart above (LinkedIn).
OpenSocial has been non-esistent in my web life.
Jason – 600 million user reach… really? Probably more like 200 million after removing duplicates. Still a friggin’ large number… Thanks. Also, my only hit is LinkedIn, and there I found the applications a bit buggy – not sure if OpenSocial or the apps were to blame. Or LinkedIn for that matter.
“a lot of those profiles will be overlaps across all those services ”
Not sure, here in Brazil the people only use Orkut, and its a lot of people.
Real question is how these 7500 developers are going to make money out of this whole deal ? I mean, social medias itself struggling to make money barring myspace and few others. It will be interesting to watch out opensocial and FB apps in 2009.
Open social? Isn’t than redundant?