Orkut, the social networking community site owned by Google, has rolled out OpenSocial applications to its users in India and will continue to expand geographically over the next few weeks. The OpenSocial API, on which Orkut’s platform is based, was launched by Google last year.

Apps are integrated directly into your orkut experience. When you log into your profile, you will be able to add up to 25 apps to your orkut profile. Your friends will see all the apps you’ve added, be able to interact with them, and can add any apps they like to their own profiles.

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hi5 Platform enables third-party developers to deeply integrate, promote and monetize their OpenSocial applications within the world’s 8th most-trafficked website. Applications offer hi5’s 80 million registered members new ways for social interaction and self-expression. hi5 Networks, Inc. will help establish the OpenSocial Foundation.

Now, third-party developers will be able to leverage a suite of common APIs, including those of OpenSocial, to create social applications for members of hi5, which is ranked as the #1 social network in over 20 nations. The hi5 Platform also provides ways for developers to deeply embed, spread and monetize their applications within hi5. With less than 25% active user overlap with any of the other leading social networks, hi5 presents a significant growth opportunity for developers’ applications.

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Drupit is an open source social networking platform currently under development. It is based on the drupal content management system and will allow anyone to run a social networking site similar to MySpace, Facebook and Bebo for free, and, will also include extra features not found on those sites currently.

Here is a brief list of planned features:

• Bulletins
• Photo Albums
• Comments on Profiles (in a similar fashion to Facebook)
• Users can select from current Drupal themes for their profile?
• Add Friends
• Watch People
• Allow each user to have an RSS feed
• Twitter / Pownce / Jaiku like functionality on each profile with short messages
• Possibly integrate Google’s Open Social?
• Allow users to post YouTube / Vimeo / Google Video…etc
• Import contact lists from Hotmail / Yahoo! / GMail / AOL / MySpace?
• Profile URL’s such as “domain.com/username” or “username.domain.com”
• Local information such as weather, movie showings…etc on the user back end page (the first page they see, not their main ‘profile’)

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Engage.com is now supporting the new OpenSocial APIs launched today by Google as a fundamental step toward making the Web more social more quickly and easily. Engage is a “social dating” community - the first true hybrid of social networking and traditional online dating — where singles actually have fun socializing with friends who help them casually explore attraction and make romantic connections.

OpenSocial supports a core Engage belief; that attraction happens naturally when singles have numerous opportunities, across multiple social features, to have fun, playfully interact, impress each other and connect, all with a little help from their friends. Engage will leverage OpenSocial as an ideal platform for developing partnerships with other companies in the Web 2.0 universe, especially companies developing features that foster rich, personal connections.

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There’s no denying that the web enables communication. The killer apps of the web — email, instant messaging, blogging — have enabled us to communicate with our friends, family, and the rest of the world on a large scale. But there is a newer characteristic of the web that has been emerging: to become social. The first wave of killer apps allowed us to communicate with the world at scale. The next wave is about connecting us and our online activities with our friends.

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Bebo has announced that they will also be joining OpenSocial, following the huge announcement from MySpace and Google earlier today. Additionally, Bebo has announced that they will be launching a developer program that will make it easy for programmers to port their existing Facebook applications over to Bebo.

From Michael Birch, Bebo’s Co-Founder & CEO:

“Developers and social networks have an important, symbiotic relationship, the success of which depends on developers not having to replicate the work they do to get their innovations in front of the largest possible community. Bebo supports open standards, to make it as seamless as possible for developers to reach our 39 million strong community and provide intriguing and engaging features to our users.”

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The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight. From the jointly issued news release:

“MySpace, the world’s largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today’s announcement underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web.”

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Though almost everything Google touches seems to turn to gold, there is one project that never quite became ubiquitous (at least here in the U.S.). Orkut may have found a following in Brazil and Asia, but I don’t know anyone who uses the service. As Erick Schonfeld reports in TechCrunch, that may be about to change.

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