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MySpace Endorses Google’s OpenSocial - The Wall Street Journal

News Corp.’s MySpace social networking site has agreed to use the OpenSocial technical specification put forward by Google Inc., executives from both companies said.

Bebo Inc., another social networking site, also plans to use OpenSocial, Google said.

Google’s OpenSocial effort is widely seen as an effort to compete with Facebook Inc., a hit social network that offers its own specifications to encourage software companies and others to create add-ons to its site. A Facebook spokeswoman declined to comment.