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Entries from May 2008

Google I/O Pictures

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

A few pictures from Google I/O: it was great to meet so many old friends and make new ones. Nelson Minar came to the conference and seemed happy about the recent developments in Google Developer products: Nelson is the one who started APIs at Google in 2003, with the Search API, then in 2005 with […]

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Slides for Google IO – Meet the OpenSocial Containers session

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday we had a great session at Google I/O where 12 OpenSocial containers presented their offering and answered questions: OpenSocial is really picking up steam, with 4 of them live, representing 275 million users, many sandbox environments and many planning to ship soon. Our secret guest was Eric Staats from AOL, who announced that AOL […]

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Opensocial presentation at Google I/O

May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here are the slides for the talk Kevin Marks, Chris Schalk and myself gave this morning at Google I/O: Opensocial, a Standard for the Social Web. | View | Upload your own Update 5/30: I had to upload the presentation on slideshare again because it did not display correctly, so the url for it changed.

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Counting Google APIs

May 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Up to last september, every time I gave a presentation about all Google APIs, I used to go to the Google Code page listing all the APIs and count the number of APIs Google offers manually. This became difficult and last april for my Evans Data “Google, Opening up to developers” talk I came up […]

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OpenSocial Summit Summary

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

The OpenSocial summit last week was a success, with 80 developers coming, either from social sites, or developers building OpenSocial applications. Jason Costa posted a detailed wrapup on the OpenSocial API blog. Here are a few pictures and video interviews I shot at the summit. A few pictures of the OpenSocial Summit And more pictures […]

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Video of Panel about Social Platforms at RealBranding Social Media Summit

May 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I was in a good panel this week at the Digital Leadership Summit on Social Media: Dave McClure played the role of Facebook’s Dave Morin, Jason Shellen moderated the panel and asked me questions about future Google products as if he did not follow the same Google Speaker training as myself a few years ago […]

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OpenSocial YouTube Playlist

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

In the past few months I recorded many videos about OpenSocial, and added videos I found interesting to a YouTube Playlist. Today I finally took the pain to clean it up a bit and create a custom player: here you go! This is a good way to get started and learn more about the API, […]

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OpenSocial Tour in Brazil

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

After Argentina, the OpenSocial South America Tour moved to Brazil, a very social country where Orkut is very important (58% of Orkut users are in Brazil). We gave talks in 3 universities, in Sao Paulo (Universidad Mackenzie), Campinhas (UNICAMP) and Porto Alegre (UFRGS – Campus do Vale). The talks attracted more students than in Argentina, […]

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OpenSocial Argentina Hackathon

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

After giving talks in 6 universities in Argentina at the beginning of the OpenSocial South America Tour, we organized a hackathon at the Globant office in Buenos Aires. It was the most successful hackathon we organized so far: 100 developers stormed the Globant office, and after a few talks by representatives from Joyent, Globant, Google, […]

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Interplay Social Gaming conference in San Francisco May 22nd

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ll speak in a panel there, about social platforms for gaming: should be fun. Get the Interplay widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!

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