OpenSocial makes the web better for all

OpenSocial changes the web; here’s a summary of the Google Developer Campfire video:

-Intro by Vic Gundotra
-7:18 David Glazer walks through the basic steps of creating OpenSocial apps

Consumer apps:

-17:20 Akash Garg of hi5 and Jeremiah Robinson of Slide do a demo
-21:36 Marc Andreesen of Ning and Joe Greenstein of Flixster demo
-27:10 Amar Ghandi, Product Manager of Orkut
-28:40 Amar demos Emote by RockYou
-30:31 Amar demos Mapster by VirtualTourist
-32:21 Hadi and Ali Partovi show iLike on Ning, hi5 and Orkut (great stuff)

Business apps:

-38:40 Adam Nash of LinkedIn demos the Conference Calendar (very cool)
-43:15 Adam Gross of Salesforce.com and Jason Masciarelli of Theikos
-47:10 Dan Serfaty of Viadeo

Surprise guest:

-52:00 Aber Whitcomb, CTO of MySpace: Joe Greenstein show how they integrated Flixster in less than 3 days

Gundotra concludes with “The web becomes better for all”. Yes indeed. Here’s the API documentation.

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