OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications across many websites. The OpenSocial API specification can be implemented by any social network, turning it into a social platform and then allowing third party applications to run on it.

One Application for Many Sites

As Google puts it the existence of this single programming model helps both developers and websites. First, developers only have to learn the APIs once in order to build applications that work with any OpenSocial-enabled website. Second, because any website can implement OpenSocial, developers have a broad distribution network to reach users. Websites also benefit by engaging a much larger pool of third party developers than they could without a standard set of APIs.

In short, a social application developed using Opensocial APIs can be used on different social networks like myspace, orkut, flickr and etc without the need to adjust the code for different social platforms.

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