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Patrick Chanezon about Platforms and Software Development

 

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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Playing with the new Google Friend Connect Javascript API

March 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments

In the past 3 weeks, since we have released the Google Friend Connect Javascript API, I have been playing Friend Connect it a bit more: the Javascript APIs let you add social features to your site without requiring the use of gadgets. Ask the user to join the site, then you have access to the […]

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How a Platform based on Open Web standards makes sense during an economic downturn

March 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Playing with Friend Connect

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

I just added a third friend connect gadget to this site, the new demo application. It demonstrates some interesting aspects of Friend Connect: canvas mode the fact that owner’s friends are the site members in Friend Connect: opensocial.DataRequest.newFetchPersonRequest( new opensocial.IdSpec({‘userId’ : ‘OWNER’, ‘groupId’ : ‘FRIENDS’})); I own that site, and when logged in as the […]

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Slides for JAOO talk about OpenSocial

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

This week I am in Aarhus, Denmark for the JAOO conference. This morning I gave a talk about OpenSocial, Open Social A Standard For The Social Web, here are the slides. Jaoo – Open Social A Standard For The Social Web View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: software technology) The conference schedule looks […]

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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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Sun’s Socialsite released: an open source social network server implementing OpenSocial

August 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Dave Johnson announced projet Socialsite at JavaOne last may. Socialsite is an open source (CDDL/GPL) social network server based on Apache Shindig (Java) that implements the database and User Interface for a full fledge social network. Since it is based on Shindig, it implements OpenSocial. A smart decision they made was to implement the user […]

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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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Slides for OpenSocial and App Engine talk at FZI in Karlsruhe

July 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Yesterday I gave a talk about OpenSocial and Google App Engine at FZI in Karlsruhe. The room was packed, 100 people, who asked many interesting questions ranging from business models to technical aspects of OpenSocial and App Engine. FZI has a very strong computer science research program (they have many PhDs who stay there to […]

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