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Kinset has developed a 3D Store technology that combines the virtual shopping with the real-time experience.

With Kinset, shops can be designed, tailored and created according to your needs in 3D and the shopper can stroll around, wander through the aisles and can use the power of the web to get information about a product that the shopper is interested in.

The retailer can decide on the look, feel and layout of the shop and analyze shopping behavior through tracking technology, on how the shopper has moved around in the virtual shop, etc. The retailer can change shop designs to optimise sales and can even use it as testing module for the real world.

This takes virtual worlds like Secondlife to the next commercial level and combines the best of the real and e-commerce world. We will see how users react and adopt this new way of shopping.

We have previously written about API and it’s one of the keywords of development in the last few months. When popular API are provided for the third-party innovators, there is a huge demand, as we can see with GoogleMaps and the over 4000 applications on Facebook itself.

With the growing availability of API it became more difficult to understand them all and that is why Google decided to simplify the development for websites and developers by creating one development platform called: OpenSocial.

This is how Google explains it on their website: “The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the APIs and host 3rd party social applications. Because it is based on the famous standard of HTML and Javascript it is easy to be learnt and quick to be applied. “

The following websites implementing the OpenSocial Standard are some websites which imply to revolutionize the development industry inevitably:

MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, und XING to name just a few of all participants.

If Facebook does not join this initiative we are bound to see an interesting competition.