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Los Angeles, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 7, 2007 - Social networking and lifestyle portal, MySpace, has joined forces with search engine, Google, to provide an open social application development platform.

The ”OpenSocial” collaboration, is hoped to simplify and inspire web innovation, with a 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.

Chris DeWolfe, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of MySpace explained, ”Our partnership with Google allows developers to gain massive distribution without unnecessary specialized development for every platform. This is about helping the start-up spend more time building a great product rather than rebuilding it for every social network. We’re pleased to collaborate with Google to establish a landmark standard for social applications.”

As a founding member of OpenSocial, MySpace will provide critical user mass and platform guidance. The OpenSocial standards are designed to evolve through contribution from the open source community and as new features are developed by various partners. Global members of the OpenSocial community include Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer of Google offered, ”As the most trafficked website in the country and the most popular social network in the world, MySpace is one of the leading forces in the global social web. We’re thrilled to grow our strategic relationship with MySpace by joining forces on this important initiative.”

Joe Greenstein, CEO of Flixster remarked, ”As an application developer, we’re excited to see MySpace adopting the OpenSocial standard for social application development. Application developers have been working with MySpace for a long time, this takes what we can do together to a whole new level. The sheer scale of MySpace makes this extremely exciting for us.”

Aber Whitcomb, CTO of MySpace offered, ”We’re all citizens of a larger web - no network is an island onto itself. We look forward to continuing to develop great technology with Google and all of the OpenSocial participants. It’s exciting that social networks are getting social with each other.”

The launch of OpenSocial is the first release of technical details for the forthcoming MySpace Platform. Starting tonight, developers can start writing applications for OpenSocial at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial which the MySpace Platform will support at launch.

MySpace.com also officially launched its new series of produced and branded concert events recently. The first MySpace Music Tour, presented by Extreme Style by VO5, will kick off Oct. 16 in Seattle, Washington, and will be co-headlined by artists Hellogoodbye and Say Anything. Other bands will include MySpace Records artist, Polysics, and to-be-announced special guests. The Tour will include more than 30 shows across the United States throughout fall and early winter, 2007.

MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is a lifestyle portal for connecting with friends and discovering popular culture. By integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, college communities and member forums, MySpace has created a connected community. As the second ranked web domain in terms of page views, MySpace.com is the most widely-

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

For more information about MySpace, please visit: www.myspace.com.

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