Open Social sounds great but in spite of a lot of support it seems to have produced nothing of use. Social Networking needs to move to a new wave where it illustrates the real value to businesses, so they start using the medium. With a whole stack of big industry players supporting Open Social I would have expected press releases detailing some real value through useful applications for small businesses for example -- pity all we are getting just more chect beating but no action. What difference will Yahoo make if Google haven't managed to make progress?

Not only are all unwelcome, they're are also probably going to be marinaded in Talisker and fried medium-to-rare. =)