P@ Log

Last week I gave a keynote about OpenSocial at the Miami 2008 Social Networking Conference. Here are the slides for my presentation in PDF format. The main argument of my talk was: after OpenSocial launched in november we ran fast on the Gartner Technology Hype Cycle, from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to the Trough […]

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A post in french since this event will be in french: demain dans le cadre des Google Developer Days Paris, je presenterai Introduction aux APIs Google Le 31 Mai de 14h30 a 15:30 Au au Bastille Design Center 74 Boulevard Richard Lenoir, Paris Une visualisation plus amusante sur une carte. purchase cialisorder cialisonline cialisgeneric cialisdiscount […]

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I just posted the slides for the 6 Google APIs for Don Isidro Parodi Presentation I gave 2 days ago in Buenos Aires. You can find all the links for demos I showed in my delicious ba2007 tag.

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Here are the slides from yesterday’s talk at San Francisco State University. Thanks to Arno Puder for inviting me, it was great discussing with faculties and students. I met with Dragutin Petkovic, Chair of the CS Department at SFSU, who used to be one of Sergey Brin‘s teachers: maybe my future boss was in the […]

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It’s a bit of a short notice, if you’re in the area, today at 5:30 pm I’ll talk about Google APIs at San Francisco State University in their Computer Science Graduate Seminar series. It’s a public talk so feel free to come discuss.

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On Monday, March 26th, I will present a 75 minutes tutorial about Google APIs: Search, Advertising and Commerce at SPA 2007 in Cambridge, UK. I will talk about many APIs: AJAX Search, Maps, Google Data, AdWords, Checkout and Google Web Toolkit, and show some cool demos of what you can do with them. More details […]

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In the cool and easy tool department, here’s a nice quick hack I just finished: a tool that helps you add Google Checkout buy buttons to your PayPal Buy Now Buttons. This tool gives you an easy way to add Google Checkout as another puchase option, give your users more choice about their checkout process, […]

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The GWT team broke the news today: GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source. This is a great news: the most common complaint I’ve heard about it was that the compiler was closed source. This is not the case anymore. I started playing with it last month when they released a Mac version, to […]

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A few pictures from a memorable dinner with Ralf Lämmel (LINQ) and Stan from Microsoft Corporation, Daniela Florescu (XQuery) from Oracle, Igor Peshansky from IBM (XJ), Tim Kraska from ETH (XQuery), and myself from Google: too bad the Yahoo guys were not around! During their session Ralph and Dana were arguing a lot about Linq […]

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Here is the Google Checkout at XML 2006 presentation.

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