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Google’s OpenSocial: Strategy, money and the art of war, err APIs Between the Lines ZDNet.com - OpenSocial is an Open Source API that allows data/profile sharing between participating social networking (SN) sites (not facebook). Essentially, this commodotizes the SN market, and allows people to innovate on uses for social networking, not the actual social networking functions.