As promised, Rich’s session from Google I/O has been posted, and I’ve embedded here for your viewing pleasure. It’s a panel so, if you don’t want to invest the full 60 minutes, you can skip to Rich’s demo, which happens between 13:24 and 20:59. He gives a quick demo of Connect and shares some OpenSocial… Read More
Tag: opensocial
Google I/O Sessions Live
Some of the sessions from Google I/O have been posted, including the Wave breakout sessions. I know one of these conflicted with Rich’s panel session, “OpenSocial in the Enterprise”. Rich was both bummed he had to miss it and worried that after the morning’s rousing keynote, no one would show up for his session. Although… Read More
See Rich at Google I/O
A quick note, Rich will be presenting at Google I/O this Thursday on a panel called “OpenSocial in the Enterprise“. He’ll be sharing our experiences with OpenSocial and Connect. Although we haven’t yet released our OpenSocial container, Rich and Anthony have been tinkering with it for over a year and have a sandbox environment we’ve… Read More
Leave a Comment using Facebook Connect
Just before Christmas, Disqus announced their support for Facebook Connect. At the time I remember being a little disappointed with the decision, due to Facebook’s closed nature and what seemed like a choice for the walled garden of Facebook and against the open web (OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial). I like Disqus; they’ve been responsive when we’ve… Read More
LinkedIn Launches OpenSocial Apps
Did you notice that LinkedIn debuted their applications platform and some very serious business apps yesterday? LinkedIn continues to chug along as the business social network, and their launch on OpenSocial is of interest to us because of our own work to do this on Connect and their business focus. So, I did a pretty… Read More
AppsLab Hackathon
So, yet another last-minute OpenWorld announcement, but that’s how we roll. We’re going to host an informal hackathon at the OTN Lounge during the conference. The OTN Lounge will be in Moscone West, Third Floor, coincidentally right near the Unconference sessions, which should work out well. So, we’re calling it informal because Rich, Anthony and… Read More
Yet Another Unconference Session
Late last week, we decided to do another session at the Unconference next week. Egad, is it that soon? If you read here, you know we’ve been plugging away with OpenSocial for several months. Since we’re not a product, we’ve been able to do all our work on the Connect+OpenSocial project in the open. So,… Read More
Unconference News and Preparation
So, I just finished my first cut at my slides for my OpenWorld Unconference session, which I’m tentatively calling, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!”. If you’re interested, check them out and give me feedback, comments, keeping in mind my goal is to educate by example, not give a comprehensive history. And to have… Read More
OpenSocial Update
I haven’t blogged about our OpenSocial progress since Rich finished up his last mockup revisions a few weeks ago. Not a whole lot to report, Rich got pulled away to work on a Mix hardware upgrade for a week, then he took a well-deserved break. My guess is he’s refreshed and back cranking out the… Read More
Social Observations, OraTweet Edition
I’ve spent a bit of quality time with Noel’s OraTweet this week, mostly because of Ed’s OpenSocial app development adventures. Noel really has done a lot with OraTweet since June, when he first showed it to me. It’s got all the Twitter features you’d expect, and it has “groups”. Don’t get too excited, it’s more… Read More
Deploy OpenSocial Locally with a Sample Network
Browsing through Rich’s Google Reader Shared Items, I found we had both shared this post from the OpenSocial API Blog: Let’s get this Partuza started! Recently, as people have started to realize the utility of Connect as an OpenSocial container, we’ve been getting more requests for access to our development sandboxes. Developer rockstars inside the… Read More
Why OpenSocial Matters and How it’s Good for You
I’ve been drilling OpenSocial for most of the year, talking about why our platforms (Mix and Connect) will be containers, explaining how it’s good for users and even better for developers. Now, I have a couple examples that should stick. Ed commented on my last mockups post: OpenSocial is now officially my new latest favourite… Read More
More Connect Mockups
Rich has finished a few more mockups of the changes we’re making to support OpenSocial. Since our last episode, he’s finished the Profile page. Take a look. One thing (other than location data, which will return soon, promise) people have been missing since we upgraded Connect to the Mix JRuby code line is status. More… Read More
Another Call for OpenSocial App Thoughts
Last week, I asked you what OpenSocial apps you’d like to see in the Connect (and eventually Mix) app directory. Which seeded apps? Any apps you’d like to build or see built? And generally, are you stoked about OpenSocial apps? Not much in the comments, but somehow, I think there’s interest out there. OpenSocial is… Read More
More Connect UI Mockups, Do You Care?
If you’ve been away, welcome back, and by the way, I’ve been blogging our design process for the changes we need to make to support OpenSocial in Connect. Today, Rich posted a few new mockups today of his vision for our Connect (and ultimately, Mix) OpenSocial UI. The first mockup shows Rich’s vision for the… Read More
Light the App Bar or Not?
So, I promised to blog Rich’s UI mockups for the OpenSocial UI changes we’re planning, and even though posts about what we actually do here at the ‘Lab get way less traffic and comments than fun posts about which O/S would win in a fight, I’m keeping that promise. Rich has made a lot of… Read More
What OpenSocial Apps Do You Want?
So, as I mentioned last week, we’re putting the finishing touches on the OpenSocial work for Connect. The OpenSocial container is finished and ready for app development right now. We just need to add an app directory and tweak the profile and home pages to accept OpenSocial apps. One line item on our development plan… Read More
Transparent Development? We Has It.
You may have noticed more talk about what we’re doing and why lately. Comments are down, so either this is exceedingly dull to you, or you completely agree and have nothing to add. Either way, as we move forward with our plan to deploy Connect as an OpenSocial container and update the UI to support… Read More
On OraTweet and OpenSocial
So, Noel Portugal is at it again. He has expanded his pet project, OraTweet, to include OraTweetBot, which he says is: . . . an XMPP/Jabber bot built with Java that will listen for tweets and post them to Twitter or to a database. I never use the XMPP/IM Twitter integration, but I know it’s… Read More
Big Changes are Afoot
I spent the day today with my AppsLab brethren sequestered like a jury in the Thunderball conference room in sunny Pleasanton, CA. Or maybe it’s Dublin. Anyway, Paul called us all together to hunker down on some design work. Well, some new design and some redesign. If you’re interested in the future of the Connect… Read More