After all the fuss about http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt yesterday, I did a view source and a few searches to see what they were using to build WhiteHouse.gov. Sam Allen has a good analysis, especially of the performance aspects: I’m in the middle of reading Steve Souders‘ High Performance Websites and many of his advices are followed on […]
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Whitehouse.gov uses an ecclectic, non-partisan mix of technologies
January 21st, 2009 · No Comments
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Obama’s inauguration viewed from San Francisco
January 20th, 2009 · No Comments
This morning I brought my kids to Civic Center to enjoy this historic day with everyone. As an immigrant in this country, not yet a citizen, I was very moved by his speech. The cheers when he was sworn in were very impressive, here’s a video to remember them, and a few pictures (I’m giving […]
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Playing with Friend Connect
January 12th, 2009 · No Comments
I just added a third friend connect gadget to this site, the new demo application. It demonstrates some interesting aspects of Friend Connect: canvas mode the fact that owner’s friends are the site members in Friend Connect: opensocial.DataRequest.newFetchPersonRequest( new opensocial.IdSpec({‘userId’ : ‘OWNER’, ‘groupId’ : ‘FRIENDS’})); I own that site, and when logged in as the […]
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Slides for JAOO talk about OpenSocial
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments
This week I am in Aarhus, Denmark for the JAOO conference. This morning I gave a talk about OpenSocial, Open Social A Standard For The Social Web, here are the slides. Jaoo – Open Social A Standard For The Social Web View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: software technology) The conference schedule looks […]
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Slides for DDB Digital Days presentation about Open Source, Google APIs and OpenSocial
September 17th, 2008 · No Comments
DDB Digital Days is a great event. I chatted with advertisers, developers, some Microsoft folks, and now I’m listening to Rafi Haladjian, creator of the wifi rabbit Nabaztag, presenting his new object. Here are the slides. Ddb Digital Days: Open Source, Google Apis, OpenSocial View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: opensocial google)
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3 weeks in Europe for Google Developer days and JAOO
September 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I arrived in London yesterday and will be in Europe for the next 3 weeks, first for Google Developer Days in London, Paris, Munich and Madrid, then in Denmark for JAOO. I will be talking mostly about OpenSocial, which gained a lot of traction in Europe in recent months. We will share the stage with […]
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Apero de geeks a la cantine mercredi soir
September 15th, 2008 · No Comments
David Sapiro de l’equipe Plone a gentiment accepte d’etendre l’apero Plone de mercredi soir a la communaute open source interesses par les APIs Google. C’est super sympa car c’est lui qui loue la salle. Moi je paierai les pizzas:-) C’est a la cantine, a 18h. C’est la veille de Google Developer days Paris, donc on […]
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Sun’s Socialsite released: an open source social network server implementing OpenSocial
August 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Dave Johnson announced projet Socialsite at JavaOne last may. Socialsite is an open source (CDDL/GPL) social network server based on Apache Shindig (Java) that implements the database and User Interface for a full fledge social network. Since it is based on Shindig, it implements OpenSocial. A smart decision they made was to implement the user […]
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Slides for the GWT talk at JUG Cologne
August 12th, 2008 · No Comments
From P@ Travel Yesterday I gave a talk about GWT at the Cologne JUG in Germany. I presented some old slides about GWT from my Isidro Parodi talk last year, as well as the more recent Google I/O slides from the Bruce Johnson. I highly suggest to look at Bruce’s IO videos, this is very […]
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Vision of summer in France
July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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