Common APIs for Building Social Applications on the Web, launched by Google today, will benefit Viadeo’s three million members

London – November 2, 2007 – Viadeo today announced its participation in and support for the new OpenSocial toolkit launched today by Google as a fundamental step toward making the web more social more quickly and easily. Viadeo is the only European business social network to have been involved in the development of OpenSocial from the outset.

By supporting OpenSocial, Viadeo (www.viadeo.com), one of the world’s largest business social networks, with three million registered members worldwide (1.8m in Europe and 1.2m in China through Tianji www.tianji.com) is demonstrating its support for an open web. OpenSocial gives developers of social applications a single set of APIs to learn, which will enable their applications to run on any OpenSocial-enabled website. Viadeo’s commitment to OpenSocial will encourage innovation and enable its members to access a wider variety of new applications ...