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 [...]

Want to know more about OpenSocial, how to write an OpenSocial application or use Shindig to support OpenSocial on your site, but your preferred language is Russian? Then this video is for you

The 2008 Moscow GDD in numbers:
400+ attendees
30Mbit/s peak Internet traffic, which survived massive downloads of Windows security update released that morning by Microsoft
34m² [...]

The video of the session with Patrick Chanezon, Chris Chabot (me), Kevin Marks and some of our partners (Hyves, Netlog, Viadeo) @ the Google Developer Day 2008 in London is now up on Youtube.
If you just want to get to the Shindig bit, skip to the 36 min mark

The London GDD 2008 in [...]

Rajdeep who works for the Google Developer API Evangelism team that works on OpenSocial Advocacy, has created an Architectural Overview for PHP Shindig. If you ever wondered how PHP Shindig worked internally, this is a must-read.

You can find it here: PHP Shindig : An Architectural Overview