MySpace signs up for Google's third apps platform

Google’s news about OpenSocial kind of failed to flutter the feathers down at Facebook. But perhaps now that MySpace has jumped on board the OpenSocial Express things will be different.

Google last week announced the idea of OpenSocial, a platform which allows developers to design third party applications for social networks. The move came after Google failed to beat Microsoft ’s get a slice of the Facebook cake.

Although Facebook’s popularity and population is growing at an alarming rate, it doesn’t change the fact that MySpace remains the biggest social network with 200 million users. Myspace announced that they too will be signing up for OpenSocial along with other networks, Bebo, Orkut and LinkedIn .

Facebook recently opened its doors to outside developers and has seen thousands of applications since, ranging from video sharing services to online boardgames like chess and scrabble.

At a press conference in California, the two companies announced that they had been working on the deal for over a year.

Eric Schmidt, Chief Exec at Google says that the company has reached out to everyone" in the social networking industry. Cheer up Facebook, that means you’re still invited !