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 develop OpenSocial gadgets using server side html generation, aka clasic web development, something I’m sure a lot of people are incredibly excited about!), OSML (smart tags), OS Templating and a new light-weight and easy to use JavaScript API, this might well be one of the most exciting spec revisions we’ve seen in a while.

Make sure to check out the OpenSocial wiki for a full list of changes (30 in total); Oh and remember, non of these are ‘final’ until we have a prototype in place that proves that the proposals are implementable, so if your excited about any of these and want to help fleshing out the last details and implement them, get involved!

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:

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.