Rumours from Tagged and news from hi5 that they are building out platforms in the style of Facebook add to the value of the Widgety Goodness conference. This is such a fast moving space, it is going to be hard to keep up as more social networks roll out platforms. The most interesting development here is the suggestion that Tagged, with 40m members, may clone the Facebook platform, thus opening up some intriguing possibilities for widget application distribution.

Inside Facebook » Rumor: Tagged Platform will mimic Facebook Platform APIs

Today, I got word from a credible source that fast growing Tagged, which has well over 40 million members, is building a platform that will exactly mimic the Facebook Platform API. In other words, if successfully implemented, Facebook apps will be able to run on Tagged without any significant code changes (developers will have to manage the different user communities, of course).If true, Tagged would be the first to take the path of choosing to emulate the dominant platform’s API. While this will lead to many more apps entering the Tagged ecosystem, Tagged will have the task of keeping up to date with Facebook’s changes, even if they build their own custom extensions.

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