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This morning I gave a keynote at the EDC | 2009 Developers Relation Conference called: Google Developer Program: How a Platform based on Open Web standards makes sense during an economic downturn. Since the audience was full of people who do slideware all year long for a living, I though slides would bore them (and […]

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Paul Buchheit posted an excellent piece today, Communicating with code, which touches many of my favorite topics: the importance of APIs for innovation, prototypes, iteration. He reasserts an idea that I’ve heard initially from Bill Joy at JavaOne 2003, that innovation happens elsewhere. Public APIs enable everyone to experiment with new ideas and create new […]

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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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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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Here are the slides for the 2 sessions at the Octo IT University conference: Be Googley, a corporate culture for innovation, with Marc-Antoine Guarrigue Google APIs for the Enterprise, with Philippe Kernevez The conference was excellent. French philosopher Michel Serres gave the best talk, the first day. He started with an ethymological exegesis of Robin […]

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Summertime started on saturday and it starts with a few speaking engagements, followed by a nice cool 4 weeks vacations in France! Tuesday June 24th, 11:30-12:15 PST, Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008 in San Francisco With Charlene Li (Forrester), David Jones (Friendster), Anil Dharni (hi5), and John McCrea (Plaxo… or should I say Comcast?-), we’re […]

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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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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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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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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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