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Dear Group members,

The economic downturn will run out of steam trying to outdo the 'ready and waiting' software professional. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2009 edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into a force to reckon with.

Rich Web Speakers at the 2009 edition of GIDS include: Jonas Jacobi, Venkat Subramaniam, Jon Aizen, Eran Shir, Craig McClanahan and Thomas Marrs. The conference this year has sessions on Web 2.0 & Social Applications, Enterprise 2.0, Mashups, HTML 5 Communication, Agile Web Development with ...

Since the release of Open Social,any concrete results from VIADEO?
Demos? Study cases?

Google profite de son premier "Google Camp Fire" pour annoncer le lancement de "Google Open Social", une norme de programmation permettant l'interaction de tous les réseaux sociaux associés à ce projet. Avec ce nouveau pavé dans la marre du WEB 2.0, Google participe à créer la synergie entre les nombreux acteurs …

Prenant conscience de son rôle de catalyseur de l'internet de nouvelle génération, Google joue à nouveau la carte de l'innovation. La logique du WEB 2.0, permet à ces sites d'être animés par de nombreux contributeurs, et les diverses applications modulaires donnent de l'interactivité et du piment multimédia aux contenus. Cette ouverture de création simplifiée, interactive et communicante a fait fleurir de nombreux réseaux sociaux, qui ont vu là l'opportunité de faciliter les contacts et répondre à une condition majeure à nos vies : l'échange.

Mais dans cette jungle de sites les plus divers, difficile de savoir à quel sein se vouer, à quelle application donner son énergie, en espérant le meilleur ...

You can watch the CNN coverage online here:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2007/11/02/janis.uk.google.assualt.cnn?iref=videosearch

La première (?) Interview vidéo sur Viadeo & Open Social?

C'est dans l'Atelier:
http://www.atelier.fr/medias-loisirs/10/02112007/Google,Open,Social,federe,reseaux,sociaux,Facebook-35480-.html

(Notez la façon très agressive de l'Atelier pour optimiser son référencement avec son URL...)

En tout cas FELICITATION!!! :-)

If you have not yet seen the launch presentation:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/opensocial.html

These are very exciting times for social networks as now thousands of developers can develop applications that can reach something like 300 million people!

Google Introduces New Social Networking API
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
October 31, 2007, 12:07 PM

Google is expected to announce Thursday that it will release an API that allows developers to create a single application that works across several social networks.

So far the Mountain View, Calif. search giant will "open up" its own Orkut. Ning, Plaxo, Friendster, VIADEO, Hi5, LinkedIn and Oracle have also agreed to open their networks to the API.

Called OpenSocial, the platform is actually three separate APIs which handle profile information, friend/social graph data, and activity data. All a social network needs to do to participate is start accepting the API calls, and the information can be used by another application.

However, the information can't exactly access data from one social network to another, so this isn't quite yet the start of interoperability between social networks. However, it will make it much easier for developers to create applications for several social networks at once.

While ...

Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial
Techcrunch 30 October 2007

Details emerged today on Google’s broad social networking ambitions, first reported here in late September, with a follow up earlier this week. The new project, called OpenSocial (URL will go live on Thursday), goes well beyond what we’ve previously reported. It is a set of common APIs that application developers can use to create applications that work on any social networks (called “hosts”) that choose to participate.

What they haven’t done is launch yet another social network platform. As more and more of these platforms launch, developers have difficult choices to make. There are costs associated with writing and maintaining applications for these social networks. Most developers will choose one or two platforms and ignore the rest, based on a simple cost/benefit analysis.

Google wants to create an easy way for developers to create an application that works on all social networks. And if they pull it off, they’ll be in the center, controlling ...