News Corp’s MySpace earlier pledged support, and the three companies announced today they were forming a non-profit organisation, the OpenSocial Foundation, to ensure the platform remains neutral and viable.
The idea behind the Google-initiated OpenSocial platform is to create a common coding standard for the applications so they work on hundreds of web sites.
The applications could permit chats, games, media sharing and more.
By contrast, sites that haven’t joined OpenSocial typically rely on unique coding that has prevented widgets developed for its sites from working at other places on the web.
The addition of Yahoo could put pressure on Facebook, the number two social-networking site behind MySpace, to pledge support as well, though Facebook has had tremendous success encouraging developers to write tools specifically for it…
