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Patrick Chanezon about Platforms and Software Development

 

Google is hiring a developer program engineer for the Go language

November 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Today Google released the Go programming language. We are hiring a developer program engineer to help manage and grow the Go developer community. The job description is similar to our generic Developer Program Engineer position with a few changes: 6 years of experience or more Strong C++ and Java, and others a strong interest in […]

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Tweeting Ulysses on Bloomsday

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I spent the past 2 nights in Singapore coding a fun literary experiment: I was initially planning to Tweet Joyce’s Ulysses the 16th of June, Bloomsday, with some friends. But I realized it was too late for that. Then I decided to crowdsource it, and created a Mechanical Irish using Google Appengine Python. Please try […]

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Google I/0: 2009 Google Friend Connect In The Real World

May 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Today with 3 partner sites, Time.com, HuffingtonPost and JS-Kit, we gave a talk at Google I/O about how and why they implemented Google Friend Connect on their site. The session showed that Friend Connect starts to get real traction with large sites, and that implementing a deep integration using the Friend Connect Javascript or REST […]

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Offline Gmail in Labs

January 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Offline Gmail has been released today: it uses the Gears API in order to store your mail in a local database. As a prerequisite, you need to install the Gears plugin, or use the Chrome browser. Alex Chitu at Google Operating System has a list of applications using Gears: Gmail is the most important to […]

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Innovation happens elsewhere… thanks to APIs

January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

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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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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Slides for the Octo IT University conference

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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 and the livin’ is easy

June 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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