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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]