With the joy of having a new Mac to configure came the oppertunity to also write the long overdue “Setting up Shindig and Partuza on Mac OS X”.
You can find the new guide here:
http://www.chabotc.com/guides/shindig_and_partuza_on_mac/
It requires you to have a mac OS X 10.5.x (leopard) instalation, and basic knowledge of how to use a terminal. If [...]

Friendster just deployed OpenSocial, as part of the Friendster Developer Program. OpenSocial applications can now be introduced to over 75 million Friendster users around the world.
This is particularly exciting news to me since, while Friendster is not the first social site that uses PHP Shiding for it’s OpenSocial support, it is the largest by a [...]

While working on PHP Shindig’s REST Atom interface I also added XDRS discovery support to Partuza, however such things are notoriously hard to test without a tool to send the correct Accept:.. headers.
Since this will also be quite important to test during OpenID and OAuth development, I thought an easy to use web based tool [...]

This is something that some people run into, they want to try out PHP shindig but it just ‘doesn’t work’; This problem is also known as ‘where is my /gadgets/ifr file?’.
The PHP version of Shindig uses something called ‘mod_rewrite’ to do url => action mapping, and on some hosts this isn’t enabled by default. Click [...]

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