While working on shindig i had the need for a test social network site to test the code, and as such a new project was born, to create a simple but full featured social networking site.
Since a project deserves a name that’s more original then ’shindig example SNS’, I named it “Partuza”. Partuza is slang [...]

Ok if you have been reading step one and two of this series, you should now have a good idea of what Open Social is all about. And you have a basic application framework that can tell you who the owner, viewer and friends of both are.
So you would think it is easy sailing from [...]

Being a fan of prototype.js and scriptaculous my self, i was soon taken aback by the arcane javascript API’s the Open Social environment offers. Its very much like programming in the old document.getElementById() days, and that can quickly get in the way of quickly writing good and maintainable software.
Hence my second step in the Open [...]

The internet has been abuzz with the release of the ‘Open Social’ social website gadget building API.
If you have completely missed it, you can find a lot of info and a good introduction movie of the ‘Google Campfire’ event here:
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
Of course being both professionally and personally interested in all new developments on the internet, i [...]

Due to to many circumstances to mention, the release of WebChat2.0 has suffered some delays; In the meantime most of the desired features (and bug & browser compatibility fixes) have taken place, however a few still remain; As does a healthy dose of nice to have features that will be put in in the future
So [...]