Googlified

Google just released an press release saying that Open Social is launching tonight (Google Time) and developers can start writing Open Social applications. They also announced that MySpace will be part of this, in addition to the previously mentioned Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

The links to Open Social is currently returning “404 Not Found”, but you should be able to see something there soon (hopefully).

UPDATE: The site is now alive but the API doesn’t seem to be working (or maybe because you need to sign up first). Also, there’s a new blog from Google dedicated to this API. For whatever reason, ValleyWag’s “Google’s OpenSocial is a PR scam” sounds quite reasonable to me.