Open Social How To

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. I talked about Plaxo’s implementation of OpenSocial as well as the larger context of opening up the social web. The video just got posted, and I’ve also embedded it below. Thanks to WebG

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Opening up the Social Web SNAP Chat - What’s New in OpenSocial San Francisco, CA November 28, 2007 Download PPT (1.0 MB) The folks behind the recent SNAP Summit have started a SNAP Chat series, and for their first event, they invited me and Hi5 Architect Paul Lindner to talk about OpenSocial and its place within the larger project of opening up the social web. I gave the latter talk, and then Paul did a technical tutorial and deep-dive on the nuts and bolts of OpenSocial. This was the first

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[IMG Logo ]Elsevier recently announced some enhancements to it’s 2collab “bookmarking service” (Digg clone). So, I’m a Scientist, will I use 2collab? No, of course I won’t. I’ll carry on using my existing web 2.0 research tools because they already have an embedded social network and the last thing I need is to build yet another social network from scratch. Elsevier’s shortsighted attempt to jump on the web 2.0 bandwagon (Hey, I know, let’s incorporate some social tools on our website!) is a d

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[IMG Open Web Awards]The Open Web Awards are now open for nominations until the 6th December, and this stage of the proceeding is quite open plan. The current 28 blogging partners (increasing daily) have been provided with a list of categories to accept nominations for, and it is down to each blog to decide how to proceed with collecting nominations, whether to make individual posts for each category, or to handle things from a single post. Voting will take place in a much more refined manner

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different [IMG The Mic Is On] Here’s how it works. It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME. The rules are simple — be nice. There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it. We’re Already Thinking about Them… We might talk abou

Original post by Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You are only a stranger once.

[IMG Join Us Tonight] We’re Already Thinking about Them… We might talk about gifts we gave, gifts we got, gifts we had to take back, gifts we wish we never got, and gifts we re-gifted. Oh, and bring links to share! The rules are simple — be nice. –ME “Liz” Strauss Related article What is Tuesday Open Comment Night? Share This [IMG]

Original post by Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You are only a stranger once.

Have you noticed that unless you are a multi-billion dollar corporation it is kinda tough to have a Google gadget ad account? That has changed. It was announced in the Google gadget API group that developers can now create accounts designed to explore the possibilities of Google gadget ads by creating trial campaigns . This is a real important step since it is probably a pretty good idea to have people capable of making the ads Google wishes to sell [IMG :)] I want to review this more befor

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[IMG Open Web Awards] I am opening up the nominations for the Open Web Awards on this site bright and early. Here are a few simple instructions to make sure that you get your site into the running. As always, if you have any questions please send me a message. Categories I will be acting as a judge for the following categories. If your web application fits into one of these, then I’m the person that you should be submitting to. Otherwise, I am sure some of the other blog partners will be

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[IMG 57577876_2]This year I helped out the splendid folk at Favela Fabric with an event they were running for KLM at the mega-social-tech bash PICNIC ‘07 in Amsterdam. The event was the first step in the airline putting a toe in co-creative waters as part of an innovation programme called Flight of the Future. There’s a write-up (in German) about it in Handelsblatt here. The format was to invite all sorts of people together who have an active stake in the airline including KLM employees from

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Bebo has set itself apart from rival social networks with its continued commitment to providing its members with content and impressive opportunities for brands and content distributors to reach people via the site. Bebo has launched Open Media – a platform that will allow content producers free and direct access to users. In return, users will get their hands on thousands of hours of premium content from some of the world’s best known media brands. The real eye-opener is that Bebo is offering

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