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Patrick Chanezon about Platforms and Software Development

 

OpenSocial Tour in Brazil

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

After Argentina, the OpenSocial South America Tour moved to Brazil, a very social country where Orkut is very important (58% of Orkut users are in Brazil). We gave talks in 3 universities, in Sao Paulo (Universidad Mackenzie), Campinhas (UNICAMP) and Porto Alegre (UFRGS – Campus do Vale). The talks attracted more students than in Argentina, […]

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OpenSocial Argentina Hackathon

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Interplay Social Gaming conference in San Francisco May 22nd

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ll speak in a panel there, about social platforms for gaming: should be fun. Get the Interplay widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!

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Interview with Augusto Becciu about TweetWheel

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Augusto came to the hackathon in Buenos Aires to start porting TweetWheel to OpenSocial. TweetWheel lets you determine whom among your friends know each other: he created it for Twitter where friend means follow, but it could be extended to a social graph extracted from an OpenSocial container (hence Augusto’s presence at the hackathon). TweetWheel […]

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hi5 popular with the very young in Argentina

May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Argentinian Asado

May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

From OpenSocialSou… Today Bruno Rovagnati’s parents invited the whole OpenSocial gang for an Asado. Eating meat and drinking wine: what a social and civilized way of spending a sunny afternoon! Bruno’s brother prepared and cooked the meat, it was delicious! More images of the afternoon on the photo album. From OpenSocialSou…

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OpenSocial South America Tour pictures and slides

April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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“Information Rules” and OpenSocial

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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“Comparing Social Platforms” Panel at Web 2.0 today

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Google OpenSocial Platforms: Orkut and iGoogle

April 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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