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We’re not in the business of talking about Facebook, or commenting on news regarding Facebook and other social applications, but I just heard some interesting news that I really wanted to talk about. Two sites have already picked up and started discussing the latest development of Facebook and Opensocial, the development is being discussed on Opensocket and O’Reilly.

Apparently, Google has released an app for Facebook that uses open social.  A creative way to break into facebook, but a crazy way to layer apps upon apps.

If you are unfamiliar with OpenSocial I highly recommend checking out Google’s website: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

From the site:

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.

It is a great idea, unifying - at least in part - the web, bringing the common features together, allowing you to great apps or gadgets to be used across multiple sites. But, Facebook has yet to adopt it.

Perhaps with this new move by Google they will take a closer look.