Ning: OpenSocial is Less About Silly Apps | Epicenter from Wired.com If you've ventured anywhere near a tech news outlet this morning, you know that Google is preparing to launch an open social networking platform (of sorts) called Open Social. The search giant and its APIs are definitely on the warpath to secure Facebook's app developers, but after the stakes are raised and the dust settles one has to wonder -- will future apps involve fewer food fights and more professional tasks ? in Public bookmarkswith apiappopensocial