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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Here ya go!
Integrating Google APIs into Your Applications
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: opensocial charts)

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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OpenSocial Templates is a new prospective feature for OpenSocial that is currently under review with runnable prototypes that you can checkout today!
Since Web page templating is a near and dear subject of mine going way back to my work with JSP and later JSF, OpenSocial Templating is a yet another neat way to separate presentation [...]

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Hello,
Last night I presented at a Facebook developer meetup in Santa Clara, Ca.
Here is my presentation which gives an update on OpenSocial development touching on the upcoming version 0.8 which includes the new REST api. I also touched on Google Friend Connect.
Here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cschalk/open-social-intro-facebookmeetup
Here is the presentation directly:

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