Google OpenSocial: Weekend Update

There’s been a lot of stuff going on about OpenSocial, and so you don’t have to read everything on the internet, I’ve done it for you (and still found 86 seconds of time to pay attention to the wife).
Who’s using OpenSocial? These guys have signed on:

amiando
Appirio
Bebo
Bleacher Report
BonstioNet
Brad Anderson
Bunchball, Inc
BuyFast
Cardinal Blue Software
Chakpak
Chronus Corporation
come2play
CurrentTV
E-junkie
Engage.com
eTwine Holdings, Inc.
Fendoo Ltd
Flixster
FotoFlexer
Friendster
Grimmthething
HedgeStop.com
Hi5
Hungry Machine
Hyves
iFamily, Inc
iLike
Imeem
Indeed.com
KlickSports, Inc.
LabPixies Ltd.
LimitNone
LinkedIn
LjmSite
LoveMyGadgets
LuvGoogleGadgets
Mesa Dynamics, LLC
Mixi
MuseStorm Inc
MySpace
Netvibes
NewsGator
Ning
NY Times
Oberon Media
Oracle
Orkut
Outside.In
PayPal
Plaxo
PROTRADE
Puxa
Qloud
RockYou
Salesforce.com
Shelfari
SideStep, Inc.
Six Apart
Slide
Theikos
Tianji
TooStep
Viadeo
VirtualTourist
Votigo
Whizz
Widgetbox
Xing
Zytu Inc.

Wait, is that a lot?
This video is from Google’s Thursday night “Campfire” event, introducing OpenSocial, and introducing the OpenSocial partners to each other (since the project was so secret that no one knew who else was in);

Here are more Campfire highlights:

Here’s a weird one: Just as Google’s announcing OpenSocial, it lunches an Orkut-only application, an ask-your-friends application similar to a recently added LinkedIn feature and a common Facebook app. You can use it to ask a community question […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg