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 numbers:

3000 surveys handed out
1800 candy bars eaten (conspiracy theorists united on Twitter…)
550 developers in attendance (more than 1500 applied)
60 Megabytes of internet (that never crashed and was complimented often)
44 access points for internet installed
24 Google speakers
24 Google volunteers
20 partner speakers (Hyves, Netlog, Rummble, Lastminute.com, ITN, the Met Office & the head of the Android User Group.)
17 hours of content created for YouTube.
2 giant screens that had powerpoint & code throughout the day, then Wii and Guitar Hero for the party.

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 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.

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.

• App data for my horoscope gadget
• My friends’s app data for the same gadget
• My activities
• My friends
• Me as ‘collection’
• Me as single entry

Today Google announced Lively and it offers a slightly different take on the social web then most of us are probably used too. The best way i can describe it is: “Social meets The Sims” adding a new dimension to Google’s social portfolio.

In Lively you get to build your own environment, which they call a room, decorate it, create and dress up your virtual self (’avatar’ in old speek) in a hip anime meets disney kind of way then you can show of your rooms and … well …  chat .. and socialize in them with your friends you know. Oh and there’s already a few spectacular ones available for your viewing pleasure at http://www.lively.com/rl

I’m sure to a very large demographic this will be very appealing .. now if you’ll excuse me, i need to go create a virtual me.