Whatever happens, OpenSocial will continue pushing forward. Coming in early 2009 is version 0.9 of the APIs, which will include the new OpenSocial Markup Language (OSML), designed to make it technically simpler to create JavaScript applications.

Foundation Chairman Hurff would like to see makers of IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) like Microsoft and Adobe make it easier to build OpenSocial applications inside their products. This would encourage the creation of more robust, sophisticated OpenSocial applications, something MySpace would welcome in its site, he said.

"Next year, when we talk at the Open Social second anniversary, there is no question that rich applications will have come to the MySpace Development Platform and Open Social," Hurff said. For example, he envisions versions of office productivity applications like Google Docs and the upcoming Web version of Microsoft Office to be available within MySpace, which students could take advantage of, he said.