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OpenSocial REST client libraries coming soon!

December 11th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Google APIs · Java · OpenSocial

Happy Birthday OpenSocial! – Some quotes

November 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Random

Presented at the SV-GTUG

October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Ajax · Google APIs · Java