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Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announced today the creation of the OpenSocial foundation to manage the OpenSocial specifications. The specifications will live on opensocial.org. Many of the social sites I have been talking to in the past few months have been asking questions about the openness of the specification and its governance model: this should answer […]

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I will be representing Google for the Open Silicon Valley panel about the Platformization of the Web in Palo Alto tomorrow. Here is the panel description: In recent years, leading social networking companies have launched open platforms to third-party developers. Our Spring Quarterly Panel will feature representatives from key platform players in the Social web […]

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After the success of Google Developer Days last year, we’re doing Google IO at the Moscone Center May 28 and 29. The OpenSocial team is organizing many sessions and codelabs: this will be a good opportunity to get started with OpenSocial, or hone your skills: URLs Are People Too – Using the Social Graph API […]

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At the Graphing Social Patterns conference last week, I was lucky to meet Rodney Rumford from the excellent FaceReviews blog. He asked me some very interesting questions about OpenSocial and the future of social applications. You can find the interview on his blog, or from YouTube. I’ll expand on one of the themes we talked […]

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This is my 6th blog since 2002: in the past 6 years I’ve been blogging with a very irregular posting pattern, my main interest being initially in the technical aspect of blogging platforms. I’ve changed platform in average every year (details in the About page), but did not spend much effort marketing my blogs: a […]

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Today Kevin Marks (Google), Chris Schalk (Google), Lou Moore (Hi5) and myself presented OpenSocial at the Graphing Social Patterns West 2008 conference. GSP is a great conference to talk about OpenSocial: all the attendees are involved in some sort of social networking software, and are very receptive to OpenSocial. Congrats to Dave McClure and the […]

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