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One question I get very often from container implementors is about the wire format for OpenSocial requests in Shindig: Cassie Doll documented that in the Shindig codebase recently. This is a very useful doc.

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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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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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Clive Boulton from the Silicon Valley Web Builders posted a cool video that gives you an idea of the exciting atmosphere at the OpenSocial Hackathons they have been organizing at Google recently.

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Here are the slides (PDF Version) for the talk I gave tonight at the Facebook Developer Meetup at Google. Google Presentation version below.

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Here’s an interview I did last week with WebMaster Radio about what OpenSocial is. Webmaster Radio Open Social Google API Evangelist Patrick Chanezon describes the new OpenSocial platform, and tells us how its used to develop cross platform social applications on popular social networks Show: Social Networking Conference Channel: Conferences

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Last week I gave a keynote about OpenSocial at the Miami 2008 Social Networking Conference. Here are the slides for my presentation in PDF format. The main argument of my talk was: after OpenSocial launched in november we ran fast on the Gartner Technology Hype Cycle, from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to the Trough […]

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