Archive for November, 2007
Opening up the Social Web (SNAP Chat)
Opening up the Social Web SNAP Chat – What’s New in OpenSocial San Francisco, CA November 28, 2007 Download PPT (1.0 MB) Update: PivotalLabs has put up the full video of my talk (.mov, 119 MB) The folks behind the recent SNAP Summit have started a SNAP Chat series, and for their first event, they [...]
Posted: November 29th, 2007 under Open Social Web, Papers and Talks, Plaxo.
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Video of WebGuild panel on OpenSocial
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to speak on a panel about OpenSocial for the WebGuild of Silicon Valley. It was a lively discussion featuring Chris Schalk from Google, myself, and Akash Garg from Hi5, moderated by WebGuild president Daya Baran. The event was hosted at Google HQ and over 300 people attended. [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2007 under Open Social Web, Papers and Talks, Plaxo.
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Tim Berners-Lee groks the social graph
I guess I missed it with the Thanksgiving break, but Tim Berners-Lee recently wrote a thoughtful and compelling essay on the Social Graph, and how it fits in to the evolution of the net and the web so far. Definitely worth a read! I was pleasantly surprised to see that he references the Bill of [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2007 under Open Social Web, Personal, Plaxo.
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Bravo for No Such Thing–Go see it!
My good friend Chris’s wife Annamarie MacLeod is an actor, and she’s starring in a new play called No Such Thing that opens tonight in San Francisco. Michelle and I went to see the final dress rehearsal last night, and we were both very impressed. The play is essentially a haunting, impressionistic sketch of a [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2007 under Personal.
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I’m speaking at SiliconValley NewTech tonight
Short notice, but I’m speaking tonight at the SiliconValley NewTech November Meetup in Palo Alto, and I’ll be giving a demo of OpenSocial apps running inside Plaxo Pulse. Stop by and say hi if you get the chance!
Posted: November 6th, 2007 under Open Social Web, Papers and Talks, Plaxo.
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OpenSocial and Plaxo: What a week!
Wow, I’m exhausted, but incredibly happy! I’ve been working insane hours all week to get Google’s just-announced OpenSocial APIs implemented in Plaxo Pulse and launched live by the time of their announcement. And we did it! We released full support Thursday night, making Plaxo the first site to publicly implement OpenSocial. Yay! I only found [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2007 under Open Social Web, Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development.
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