What are the social network giants of the world doing all gathered in the conference room of the British Telecom in London? Easy: they are revolutionizing the internet. On April 6th 2008 Google organized a one-day hackathon (a hack-marathon) for its project Opensocial (see the previous post). As Ciaopeople’s application development manager I attended the conference, and despite all the beer provided by Google, I am still able to talk about it. London, with its 300 languages, dozens of ethnicities and 20 underground lines thickly interconnected, is the perfect city for such a gathering.

Opensocial Google’s Blog reported:

The event will start at 11am and go as long as people can still type. We’ll provide

Yahoo, MySpace and Google have launched OpenSocial Foundation, a non-profit private organization that promotes the development of open and extensible specifications for social networking APIs.
OpenSocial Foundation is a clear example of how the “flatting” process of the world is developing in a very fast way and involving the social networking. Thanks to new technologies and to internet the world has been transformed from round into flat, encouraging the cooperation among people who live even in the most remote places of the planet and allowing them to interact and to work at the same projects.
The concept of community that shares the same tools and that is capable of implementing and standardizing