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GDD08 Russia | Open Social (Russian)

chabotc — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:10:09 +0000

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

OpenSocial Session @ GDD 2008 in London

chabotc — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:56:13 +0000

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

Setting up Shindig and Partuza on a Mac

chabotc — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:44:39 +0000

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 there are any questions you can find the developers of Shindig and Partuza on their mailing lists:

Shindig: http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/#tab-support
and for Partuza: http://groups.google.com/group/partuza

Oh ps don’t forget there’s also a windows based guide available too at:
http://www.chabotc.com/generic/setting-up-shindig-and-partuza-on-windows/

Friendster Launches OpenSocial for 75 Million Users!

chabotc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:27:09 +0000

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 good margin. This brings the total number of end users using PHP Shindig to some 90 million, and increases the total number of OpenSocial users to at least 365 million; Truly an impressive milestone for all who have worked on the PHP version of Shindig and for the OpenSocial community.

For more information see the announcement on the OpenSocial API Blog, and Friendsters Developers Platform.

XDRS Fetcher tool & Shindig Atom support

chabotc — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:25:41 +0000

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 might be easier then command line scripts, so here’s the XDRS fetcher:

http://www.chabotc.com/xrds-test.php

To test it with Partuza’s new XDRS support check out:
http://www.chabotc.com/xrds-test.php?url=http://www.partuza.nl

Oh and while on the topic of Shindig’s Open Social 0.8 REST Atom interface, check out the following links for a live demo, REST support is really taking shape, and once the OAuth server has been added it should be production ready.