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Via the OpenSocial APIs blog, here's some good news for OpenSocial. OpenSocial v0.7 is now live across Ning's 500,000 niche social networks and there are more than 30 OpenSocial applications in the Ning directory. Here's the scoop from Ning's blog:

"OpenSocial is now live across our more than 500,000 social networks this morning. This release replaces and improves our older “Gadgets” beta functionality, and enables Network Creators and their members to add all sorts of great new features, or Applications, to their profile pages with a single click."

"Each social network on Ning now offers more than 30 OpenSocial applications from which to choose, including file sharing from Box.net, poll creation from Polldaddy and e-commerce from Shopit."

Read the full post for more including screen-shots and a screen-cast showing off the new OpenSocial feature set.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a video worth? Whatever the answer, you can multiply it by fifty-eight here.

That's the current number of OpenSocial-related videos on the Google Developers Channel at YouTube. They cover everything from industry interviews (with leaders such as Hi5, Ning, and RockYou) to OpenSocial talks at recent conferences.

So have a look. I'm sure you'll find something of interest.