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Dave blogs about blogs.sun.com’s 100,000’s post. Wow time passes fast! Seems yesterday when I wrote the first post celebrating John Hoffmann and William Snow for deploying Roller so fast. Linda Skrocky posts the picture of the chairman award we got for creating blogs.sun.com, but I’m not on it (in vacations). Hopefully here’s my Photoshopped version […]

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Information Rules, by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (now chief economist at Google) is the best book about technology strategy I have read. It was published in 1998, 10 years ago, so the examples are Netscape vs Microsoft, or Microsoft vs Intuit, but the examples are just illustrations of deeper principles that apply today more […]

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Today I’ll be representing Google (Orkut and iGoogle) at the “Comparing Social Platforms” Panel at Web 2.0 moderated by Justin Smith from the Inside Facebook blog. There will be representatives from facebook, MySpace, Bebo and SixApart. Should be a fun panel. One of the questions he plans to ask is about viral channels and balancing […]

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Jia Chen from RockYou invited me to talk about Google OpenSocial platforms, Orkut and iGoogle during his talk at Web 2.0 Expo this morning: Building an App for Social Platforms. It was a great sessions, with representative from hi5 and MySpace presenting their implementation of OpenSocial, and Jia and Raymond showing how to create an […]

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One question I get very often from container implementors is about the wire format for OpenSocial requests in Shindig: Cassie Doll documented that in the Shindig codebase recently. This is a very useful doc.

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I installed Greg Slaven’s WordPress FriendFeed comments plugin today. I had to struggle a bit to get it to work: I sent him a patch for not checking the path when you declare your blog on FriendFeed with just a / and no path. It was a good opportunity to dig into WordPress plugin architecture: […]

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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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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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