adventures in opensocial

Adventures inOpenSocial

Winter 2008

An Oracle AppsLab Production

StarringAnthony Lai

Rich Manalangwith

Jake Kuramotoas

“The Narrator”

An Oracle AppsLab Production

August 2007

• Connect launches

• 15,000 people log in

• 427,000 pages are viewed

An Oracle AppsLab Production

Today

• A year later

• 35,000 people have logged in

• 1,300,000 pages have beenviewed

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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

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Things looked Grimfor our heroes

An Oracle AppsLab Production

November 2007Google launched

OpenSocial

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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

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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

An Oracle AppsLab Production

An Oracle AppsLab Production

An Oracle AppsLab Production

Questions?