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Telstra adds one million mobile services, but Sensis plummets

Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.

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OpenSocial backers form foundation

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An open source implementation of OpenSocial - Shindig - is being developed as an Apache project. According to the partners, this implementation means "most websites can have a proof of concept of OpenSocial applications up and running in a few days."

Announcing Yahoo!'s participation in OpenSocial, Wade Chambers, the company's vice president – platforms, said "Yahoo! believes in supporting community-driven industry specifications and expects that OpenSocial will fuel innovation and make the web more relevant and more enjoyable to millions of users."

"Our support builds on similar efforts with the OpenID community and will expand the opportunity for developers and publishers to benefit from an open and increasingly social web," he added.

The first OpenSocial applications can be found at MySpace and orkut, with hi5 preparing for a late March debut. Other companies involved in the project include Friendster, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, and XING.

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