Last night on Dec 10th in Palo Alto, Ca, I gave a presentation to the FaceBook and OpenSocial application developer meetup. I really enjoyed presenting to this group as it represents a real solid grass roots cross section of people who are working on their next big thing in the social software arena.

My presentation for the evening was to basically introduce OpenSocial to those who haven’t yet worked with it. The second half of my presentation focused on the open source reference implementation of the OpenSocial server, known as Apache Shindig.

A big thanks to Sudha Jamthe for inviting me!

Here’s a video of this preso: http://www.vimeo.com/2491619

And here’s the slides: http://is.gd/b6f1

Or you can just check them out here:

A bog post on code.google.com/opensocial is coming soon, but I wanted to give a shout out to my colleagues at Google who worked to produce the OpenSocial client libraries that greatly enable REST interactions with OpenSocial servers.

Why are these client libraries significant? Firstly, they provide a way to build cool server-to-server mashups with OpenSocial. This means that you can actually build OpenSocial applications and more importantly cool mashups with any server-side technology - as opposed to always having to write a gadget in JavaScript!

The combination of both the REST (and RPC) protocols that come in version 0.8.1 of OpenSocial, plus a set of user friendly client libraries makes enterprise mashups of OpenSocial with any other technology possible.

To check out these client libraries in Java, Ruby, PHP, visit these sites:

Java - http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-java-client/

PHP - http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-php-client/

Ruby - http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-ruby-client/

Having worked with Mickey Kim here at Google, we initially reached out to a set of new companies in Korea last summer and achieved a good deal of success in getting people excited about OpenSocial.

This OpenSocial Summit represents a milestone in our efforts as we had of 90 people in attendance today at the Google office in Seoul. The breakdown of attendees were about a half and half mixture of application developers and container providers. Also, some of the new container partners in Korea, such as IdTail, Paran, Daum, MySpace Korea, also came to the summit and presented their technology so far.

Here’s a a blog post (auto-translated from Korean) as we were kicking things off this morning:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgooglekoreablog.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fblog-post_18.html&sl=ko&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Mickey’s addressing the audience and Arne and I are sitting in the front row.

Here are my slides!

http://is.gd/7W5H

Hello,

I’m here at the 1 year birthday party for OpenSocial at the MySpace office in San Francisco.

So far off to a good start.  Morning presentation of “State of OpenSocial” followed by partner presentations.

Some notable quotes so far:

OxyLabs (aka Photobuzz) - Lalit Sarna

Pixverse: “First on Hi5,  got up on MySpace 90 mins, Orkut in 60 mins and ported the backend to AppEngine in 3 hours”

Charles Ying - Hi5/Pixverse

“Use jQuery” - JavaScript templates, internationalization

“Use JSON”, “Use SWFObject”, “As3corelib”

“Build your own abstraction toolkit for JavaScript m Python, Oauth”

“Use viral channels, measure your users..”

You can follow my tweets on the OpenSocial birthday here:

http://twitter.com/cschalk

More to follow…

Happy Friday everyone!

Just wanted to let you know that I’m posting my slides from my presentation earlier this week at SalesForce.com’s DreamForce conference.

I was especially grateful to my Salesforce.com contacts to find an open slot at the last minute to show off some of the brainstorming and prototyping work that I and Dave Carroll did.

Here are the slides:

Hello again!

Thanks for attending my talk at AjaxWorld West on Oct 21st in San Jose, Ca!

Obviously I touched on a lot of stuff - in a quick 45 minutes, but feel free to post any questions here and I can definitely drill down on specifics about AJAX apis, Maps, OpenSocial, Gadgets as well as AppEngine!

Thanks!

Here is an embedded version of my slides that are posted at slideshare.net:
http://www.slideshare.net/cschalk/building-ajax-mashups-with-google-apis-presentation

Hello,

Just wanted to mention that I presented at the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group this previous Wednesday. If you’re wondering what this group is, it’s actually a fully independent user group that meets to discuss Google technologies ranging from anything like Google Web Toolkit, Android, Google Data Apis, AJAX apis and even Geo stuff Maps API.

Presenting at this group was especially fun, because this group got created mainly through a casual discussion I had with Van last year at Ajaxworld where I offered the idea that they could create a new group focusing on Google technologies. This was a no brainer, because Van already had solid experience running the Silicon Valley Java User’s group, which I was quite familiar with.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to start a GTUG, just drop me a line on this blog, and I can send you some preliminary information on how to create your own GTUG in your area. We now have GTUGs popping up in different locations including Pune, India, Berlin, Sacramento and a few more in the pipeline!

Thanks again for inviting me to speak! I had a blast meeting the group and hope you guys continue to flourish with lots of cool Google related presentations!

Here are my slides from last Wednesday where I presented on Google AJAX APIs. I hope you also enjoyed my additional demos for fun where I showed my silly Halaka language demo on App Engine as well as other GData and Charts demos.

-Chris

Here ya go!

Hello there,

As I was present to answer any OpenSocial questions at a presentation given by the Oracle Appslab team on their new OpenSocial container work, I decided to offer up a presentation at the OpenWorld Unconference as well where I will provide an overview of Google’s APIs and how you can integrate them into your applications.

Here’s a title and (somewhat wordy) abstract:

Title: “Integrating Google APIs into your applications”

Abstract: In addition to the Google Maps API, you may be surprised to know about all of the other Google APIs that are freely available to integrate into your applications. These include the AJAX APIs for integrating Google Search, Feeds and Language translations into your Web pages/applications. For server-side integration, Google’s Data APIs allows you to interact with many of Google’s online services including Calendar, Blogger, YouTube among others. Finally you can use the Google led OpenSocial Open Source software to build your own social applications and/or container to host social applications. This talk will cover all of these topics in a casual manner with an emphasis of showing working demos of Google technology integrations.

Hope to see you there!

Date: Tuesday 9/23
Time: 3pm
Location: Oracle OpenWorld Unconference - Moscone West

Hello,

After presenting at both the JSFOne conference and Rich Web Experience 08 conference earlier this month in Washington DC, I finally managed to upload my presentations to slideshare. Congrats to Jar Zimmermann and Kito Mann for running excellent conferences together!

Here’s some pix from the conference as well:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cschalk/RichWebExperienceJSFOne08

(You can see my friend and co-author, Ed Burns, banging away on the keys on the final night.. :-))

You can access them directly at:

RWE Preso 1: “A technical overview of OpenSocial -aka Integrating OpenSocial into your Ajax applications”

RWE Preso 2: “Introduction to Google’s AJAX apis

JSFOne Preso: “Integrating JSF with Google server-side technologies”