Wink to Support Google’s OpenSocial Initiative

Wink’s People Search Engine Includes 250 Million Social Network Profiles From OpenSocial Supporters, Bebo, Hi5, MySpace and Friendster

Wink.com, the Web’s largest people search engine, today announced its intentions to support OpenSocial – the API developed by Google to promote interoperability of applications and data across all online social networks. Wink will release a major update of its people search engine in one week, improving the profile-building and control features that span social networks like Hi5, MySpace and Friendster.

“At Wink we are constantly seeking ways to make it easier and more intuitive to find and connect with friends, classmates, and business contacts wherever they are online” said Michael Tanne, CEO of Wink. “Since we already support most of the leading social networks we are encouraged by the efforts of all the companies signed on to support OpenSocial and are eager to use the API to provide more services to people at any social network.”

By supporting the OpenSocial API, Wink will enable people to access their profiles and social graphs, as well as keep in touch with friends on different social networks more readily.

Since its launch at Web 2.0 Summit, November 9, 2006 as the first people search engine for social profiles and online identity, Wink has maintained its leadership with over 250 million people listed in its search engine. Many of the popular social networks that have joined the OpenSocial effort are already searchable via Wink, including MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Bebo and Friendster.

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1 November 2007 | Wink | Comments

2 Responses to “Wink to Support Google’s OpenSocial Initiative”

  1. 1 My Ghillie » Wink to Support Google’s OpenSocial Initiative 1 November 2007 @ 5:06 pm

    […] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptWink.com, the Web’s largest people search engine, today announced its intentions to support OpenSocial – the API developed by Google to promote interoperability of applications and data across all online social networks. … […]

  2. 2 New Wink Updates: Leave Messages on the Web at Not So Relevant 8 November 2007 @ 4:34 pm

    […] The real cool feature is the way you are able to contact other people. Of course, you can invite them to join Wink as well. That’s no problem but let’s assume you have found old classmates on another social network by a search on Wink but you are hesitant to invite them because you haven’t been in touch for many years. Now you can just leave them a message on Wink although they aren’t members yet. If they join Wink someday and claim their profiles they will see your message and can reply to it. Considering that Wink supports Google’s OpenSocial this might be a resonable way to get in touch with people. Rafe Needleman at Webware has a good summary of that feature: …it’s a clever idea and if Wink integrates with other social nets through OpenSocial, it could become a useful way to leave little message bombs around the Web for people you haven’t communicated with in a while. […]