A new Google Friend Connect plugin is now available for Wordpress, and of course this site has been upgraded to use it too so you can play around with it right away. Adding the ability to use popular accounts (Google, Yahoo, AIM, Netlog & every OpenID provider) means people no longer have to go through [...]

It’s not often I get to speak at a conference in my home country, The Netherlands, we just don’t have that many of them! So you can imagine I’m quite thrilled to be speaking at the Kings Of Code in Amsterdam June 30th. I’ll be covering the what the social web means, how OpenSocial can [...]

Arne Rooman-Kurrik and my self did a session at the Google I/O 2009 event about: How to make your apps fast, secure, and scalable by taking advantage of recent updates in the OpenSocial spec, like templates, data pipelining, and proxied content. Learn how to make use of all the tools in the OpenSocial toolbelt, from [...]

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 [...]

If your using or planning to use php-shindig in production, your probably wondering what knobs can be twiddled to get the highest possible performance out of it; So here’s some tips on how to make it go just that bit faster.
The first thing to look at is the general PHP performance on your server. Out [...]