Okay, so I guess Myspace is not dead afterall. Sneaky devil had a trick up their sleeve last week when they announced Open Social with Google.

Here’s an interesting blog article by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Ning).  He has some screengrabs of integration and gets into some more detail about the concept of Open Social and the implications of something of this magnetude for developers: “I think any web site going forward that wants maximum distribution across the largest number of users will have a single back-end, and then multiple sets of front-end pages.” I guess that’s nothing new if you’re developing your sites for WAP or Facebook already. Just add another to the list…right?

I’m excited to see this play out and curious on how Google and its crew are going to handle privacy.