Google Launched “Lively” to Create Virtual World on Web

Google Lively is the new 3D virtual world created by the world’s largest search engine. It’s free. And it changes everything. Especially for telecommuters. Google Lively is billed as a “chat experience” using avatars.

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The Redesigned Site of MySpace to be Launched on June 18

It would be the largest scale relaunch of a website of its size. MySpace, the social networking site, will change its home page, navigation, profile editing, search, and MySpaceTV player facilities. Other changes will come during the summer. Full article »

Google is to launch “Friend Connect” on Monday

Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites. The new tool is going to compete with data portability crowd like Facebook Connect from Facebook or Data Availability from MySpace.

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Google Launches OpenSocial, APIs for Social Applications

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. The APIs will be interoperable with any social network service that supports them, including on sites such as Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

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