Archive for the ‘social’ Category

New Google Friend Connect WP plugin

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 [...]

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Speaking about the social web at the Kings Of Code conference June 30th

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 [...]

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Using Shindig in a non PHP or Java environment

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 [...]

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OpenSocial 0.9 draft being created

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 [...]

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GDD08 Russia | Open Social (Russian)

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 [...]

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