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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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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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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I’ve been toying around with this Wordpress install on my external server and am proud to say that this blog is now operational!
I’ve also just returned from a recent tour of Google Developer Day 2008 in APAC where I presented in Yokohama, Beijing and Taipei.
Here are my photos from Yokohama:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cschalk/GoogleDeveloperDay08Tokyo
And here are my photos from [...]

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