MySpace and Google have announced they are collaborating in a deal that could change the landscape of social networking.

MySpace has agreed to join OpenSocial, a Google’s platform that allows developers to build applications that will work on any platform. Besides MySpace, other sits like Bebo, LinkedIn and Orkut are members of OpenSocial. The participation of MySpace, with 200 million users, will encourage more programmers to develop applications on OpenSocial.

According to Google, they have reached out to everyone in the social networking industry to join OpenSocial and it indicated that included Facebook.

Meanwhile, Facebook is still sitting at the sideline waiting to see further development on OpenSocial. Since opening up its platform the programmers, Facebook has tens of thousand programmers developing applications for Facebook.

Recently, Facebook sold 1.6% stake to Microsoft for US$240million. MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.