OpenSocial about to open

I’m about to step on a plane, so I’ll just point to Om Malik’s take on the announcement coming tomorrow from Google regarding its support (along with others) of OpenSocial:

“OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications on the web. These common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications.

Later today, I’ll jump back onto the this thread. This is a significant — and long anticipated move. And one I’ve been looking forward to personally. I’ll explain why later.