adventures in opensocial

Adventures inOpenSocial

Winter 2008

An Oracle AppsLab Production

StarringAnthony Lai

Rich Manalangwith

Jake Kuramotoas

“The Narrator”


August 2007

• Connect launches

• 15,000 people log in

• 427,000 pages are viewed


Today

• A year later

• 35,000 people have logged in

• 1,300,000 pages have beenviewed


Problems

• Not enough hands to fix bugsand build new features

• Too many requirementsimpacting the platform’s code

• No code portability betweennetworks, platforms

• New skills required to assist


Things looked Grimfor our heroes


November 2007Google launched

OpenSocial


Image by macropoulos from Flickr http://flickr.com/photos/markop/239111586/

But Why?

• Deliver on the promise of portals

• Leverage the skills of thousands ofdevelopers

• Tap the hidden demand for build aswell as use

• Merge the communities passively

• Top it off with social gravy


Where are we?

• Working toward initial release to Connectin November

• Several apps built in the sandboxenvironments including:– OraTweet

– Bug DB

– Internal Blogging

– FriendFeed

• Major UI overhaul to support apps



Questions?

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