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This morning we had 2 talks about OpenSocial at the GSP East 2008 conference. Here are the slides. OpenSocial + Google App Engine Technical Overview, 9:05am – 9:30am Wednesday, 06/11/2008 | View | Upload your own OpenSocial: Open for Business, 11:15am – 12:00pm Wednesday, 06/11/2008 | View | Upload your own

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Yesterday we had a great session at Google I/O where 12 OpenSocial containers presented their offering and answered questions: OpenSocial is really picking up steam, with 4 of them live, representing 275 million users, many sandbox environments and many planning to ship soon. Our secret guest was Eric Staats from AOL, who announced that AOL […]

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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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The OpenSocial summit last week was a success, with 80 developers coming, either from social sites, or developers building OpenSocial applications. Jason Costa posted a detailed wrapup on the OpenSocial API blog. Here are a few pictures and video interviews I shot at the summit. A few pictures of the OpenSocial Summit And more pictures […]

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2 weeks ago I invited Dan Carroll from SOMR to give a tech talk at Google about SOMR’s social recommendation engine. This is a very interesting topic: here is the video.

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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 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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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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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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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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