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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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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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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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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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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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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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