In the post at techcrunch where they announce that google is going to make something to go up against facebook called “Maka Maka”, i kinda got stuck on the fact that they will be releasing alot of social apis to the public on november 5th, you know what that means, MFAs!

Whenever a heavyweight in the search industry announces apis it opens a line of new niches for webmasters, with a little bit of coding and rewrites you got yourself a money maker.

Other then that i can’t think of it being any better, last time we had an api from google (youtube) we had a huge load of youtube video aggregator scripts that work on its api to index videos on a site with category,search and what not.

Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google’s personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time.

On November 5 we’ll likely see third party iGoogle gadgets that leverage Orkut’s social graph information – the most basic implementation of what Google is planning. . . . Google is also considering allowing third parties to join the party at the other end of the platform – meaning other social networks (think Bebo, Friendster, Twitter, Digg and thousands of others) to give access to their user data to developers through those same APIs.

All in all what Maka Maka is gonna do is put up this social interacting bridge between every service they are already offering at google now thats something that can definetly go up against Facebook, the funny thing is its not even considering Myspace to be of any competition at the moment. Hah!

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