Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle.

This was reported by Silicon Valley Insider earlier today, and we have confirmed it from a source as well: MySpace will announce that it is joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative.

Google will be making an announcement today. MySpace joins Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle as announced Google partners. No word on whether MySpace will continue with efforts to complete its own recently announced platform, but the answer is probably yes. They are likely to simply do both.


Suddenly, within just the last couple of days, the entire social networking world has announced that they are ganging up to take on Facebook, and Google is their Quarterback in the big game.