P@ Log

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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After giving talks in 6 universities in Argentina at the beginning of the OpenSocial South America Tour, we organized a hackathon at the Globant office in Buenos Aires. It was the most successful hackathon we organized so far: 100 developers stormed the Globant office, and after a few talks by representatives from Joyent, Globant, Google, […]

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Irma Van Der Walt was our translator for the university tech talks about OpenSocial. She had a fun story about hi5. To the hi5 team: you chose your name well!

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The OpenSocial South America Tour started on monday in Buenos Aires and Tandil, Argentina, and it’s a lot of fun! Here are some pictures of the first 2 days, I will add more to this album as we go.And here are the slides of yesterday’s presentation: | View | Upload your own

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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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At the Graphing Social Patterns conference last week, I was lucky to meet Rodney Rumford from the excellent FaceReviews blog. He asked me some very interesting questions about OpenSocial and the future of social applications. You can find the interview on his blog, or from YouTube. I’ll expand on one of the themes we talked […]

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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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