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In july 2005 I joined Google as AdWords API evangelist, to start developer relations, be the public friendly face for developers, of a company mostly driven by algorithms, with little human front end. Google then had 3000 employees, and 5 developer products. I left Google last week after 6 years, friday september 2 2011 was […]

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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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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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Today at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference I gave a talk, Google Opening up to Developers: From 3 to 40 APIs in 2 years about the history of Google APIs up to yesterday (with the launch of Google App Engine). Here are the slides: | View | Upload your own

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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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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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Clive Boulton from the Silicon Valley Web Builders posted a cool video that gives you an idea of the exciting atmosphere at the OpenSocial Hackathons they have been organizing at Google recently.

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Here are the slides (PDF Version) for the talk I gave tonight at the Facebook Developer Meetup at Google. Google Presentation version below.

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Here’s an interview I did last week with WebMaster Radio about what OpenSocial is. Webmaster Radio Open Social Google API Evangelist Patrick Chanezon describes the new OpenSocial platform, and tells us how its used to develop cross platform social applications on popular social networks Show: Social Networking Conference Channel: Conferences

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