Who, What, When, Where, Why?

Lane LiaBraaten, GoogleOpenThread - San Francisco, CA

August 15, 2008

http://www.slideshare.net/lliabraa/openthread-presentation/

Who’s Involved?

Containers

Users

Developers

http://xkcd.com/303/

Who’s Involved?

®friendster

What’s in an app?

HTML and CSS– Presentation layer

JavaScript– Request people, friends and activity info from containers– Request info from your servers (gadgets.io.makeRequest)

Wrapped in XML– Application metadata (title, description, etc.)– Include extra features (e.g. support for photos)

When?

Now.

Where?

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=opensocialInspired by: http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=336

Why?

OpenSocial v0.7 in full swing – 275+ million users in reach– 16 containers in production or sandbox

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/gettingstarted.html

– 100+ million app installs– 20K developers

OpenSocial v0.8 rolling out now– RESTful APIs (and client libraries)– Other updates

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/releasenotes.html

What’s next?

Templates• http://ostemplates-demo.appspot.com/

New kinds of containers• LinkedIn, Yahoo!, iGoogle, FriendConnect

You decide!• Propose your ideas for OpenSocial v0.9

Resources

Visit the site and read the spec:• http://www.opensocial.org

Keep an eye on the blog:• http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com

Get involved in the developer forums:• http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial

Help shape the specification:• http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/

Check out Shindig:• http://incubator.apache.org/shindig