December 19 2009 I presented at the Kiev GTUG (Google Tech User Group) about the Open & Social Web, our long term vision of a social web that is made of loosely coupled pieces and where anything can be connected to anything, and the protocols and standards that are being created to make that a [...]

A group of Spanish journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators came together to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish laws restricting the freedoms of expression, information and access to culture on the Internet.
While this is by and aimed at Spain, the threat [...]

So you want to use OpenSocial gadgets on your site, Google FriendConnect isn’t the right choice for you since you want to leverage your own social graph, but your site isn’t written in PHP or Java, so how do you use Apache Shindig then?
For this scenario we’ve created the meta-data interface, it allows you to [...]

This was to good not to share, Scroobl’s awesome take on Google Friend Connect vs walled gardens:

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After a period filled with intense and insightful discussions by many, the votes have been tallied, and we now have a list of what will become the 0.9 revision of the OpenSocial specification.
You can see a list of what made it in at the OpenSocial wiki, and with additions like ‘Proxied Content‘ (being able to [...]