MySpace goes Google

Here is a list of social networks joining Google’s OpenSocial.  It looks like MySpace will even abandon its own API development.

Only FaceBook remains absent from the list, with its recently announced API and slug of cash from the Borg.  Speaking of the Borg, Google took another shot in their direction by marketing a $199 PC at Walmart: the gPC

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

Google will be making an announcement today. MySpace and Six Apart join Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle

Engage.com, Friendster, … Hyves, imeem, … , Tianji, … and XING

Google: the new IBM

An interesting take on Google from Fake Steve…

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: We’re not scared of the gPhone

In all these years Google has spent millions, maybe billions, trying to create an Act II for the company, some way to go beyond search and advertising. They’ve done the classic Valley thing — hire nerds, turn them loose to dream up wacky ideas, put some of those ideas out into the market, throw them against the wall and see what sticks. Only, um, in their case so far nothing sticks. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Sure the stock is at almost 700 bucks and the dopes on Wall Street are lapping it up but the truth is that out in the Valley people are starting to snicker. And if you look very closely at their quarterly results in the last couple of quarters you can see the cracks in the facade. Eric’s slapping financial patching plaster over them as fast as he can but there’s only so far you can go with that kind of stuff. Unless you’re IBM in which case apparently you can do it forever and nobody ever catches on.