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Now, it looks like Google and MySpace are forming a tag team to duel Facebook and Microsoft. ''This clarifies the battle lines, but it's not just a two-way conflict,'' said industry analyst Ray Valdes.

LONDON (Reuters) - A British film project has turned MySpace users into movie moguls, giving them a say in choosing the director, cast, soundtrack and marketing model.

Internet juggernauts Google (GOOG) and MySpace (NWS) have teamed to take on social-networking website Facebook.

COUP: The site's alliance with Google laid to rest speculation that MySpace might be working on its own proprietary platform for interactive networking applications

- MySpace, the world's largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial- a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today's announcement underscores MySpace's commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web.

Google Inc. has announced a set of common APIs for building social applications called OpenSocial in a move that portends to drive higher value across the Web while making a strong statement to those that have dismissed social networking as a fad lacking relevance.  

MySpace and Google are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. MySpace will provide critical user mass and platform guidance.

Google trumpeted the MySpace coup Thursday in a meeting with reporters, two days after revealing its plans to create a distribution network for interactive applications known as "widgets."

So some members of the press are saying, anyway. Just days ago, Google laid its social networking plans out on the proverbial table, which it has called OpenSocial, and in doing so received quite rapturous applause. OpenSocial delineated a future in which multiple entities, many of which have already been known to spar with one another in the highly competitive forum that is the technology world’s social sphere, battle for greater shares on a more level, more fair (for consumers) playing ...

MySpace (News - Alert) and Google are preparing to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. Both companies aim to standardize and simplify the development of social applications.