Building context-aware extensions for Gmail – Deep dive on Gmail contextual gadgets (Live Blogging Google I/O 2010)

Posted by walter.roth on May 20, 2010 in Events, Live Blogging | 0 comments Building context-aware extensions for Gmail – Deep dive on Gmail contextual gadgets Enterprise – Dan Holevoet How much time do your users spend in email everyday? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could seamlessly integrate your apps into the rich context offered by their email and allow them to avoid shifting to new applications for various tasks? Gmail contextual gadgets allow you to...
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Surf the stream: Google Buzz, location, and social gaming (Live Blogging Google I/O 2010)

Posted by walter.roth on May 20, 2010 in Live Blogging, Social, Standards | 0 comments Surf the stream: Google Buzz, location, and social gaming Social Web – Bob Aman, Timothy Jordan Google Buzz has a feature-rich API that allows you to do all kinds of interesting things with conversations and location. In this session we’ll build a Buzz-tastic mobile game using App Engine, HTML5, and the Buzz API for social awesomeness. Session type: 201 Attendee requirements:...
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Google I/O 2010 Thurs Keynote (Live Blogging)

Posted by walter.roth on May 20, 2010 in Events, Live Blogging | 0 comments Google IO 2010 Thurs Notes Day II Day II Keynote Vic opens up Why does the world need another mobile OS? If you believe in open, choice and innovation. Let’s look at some momentum… Over 100k activations a day for Smart Phones … Tremendous in under 18 months … Over 50k apps, 180k+ developers … Over 22 demos to show … 5 major areas of investments in the platform (7 releases...
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Building Real-Time Apps with PubSubHubbub (Live Blogging Google I/O 2010)

Posted by walter.roth on May 19, 2010 in Events, Live Blogging | 0 comments Building Real-Time Apps with PubSubHubbub (e.g., hubbub) Brett Slatkin (Google) on Google App Engine Team (one of the innovators of this) notes: tinyurl.com/push-io2010 onbigfluke.com to follow him Agenda: Intro, publishing, subscribing, hubs, special guests, progress & adoptions, future work…. What is is? Turns RSS and Atom feeds into real-time streams .. a single api for web scale,...
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Bridging the islands: Building fluid social experiences across websites (Live Blogging Google I/O 2010)

Posted by walter.roth on May 19, 2010 in Live Blogging, Social, Standards | 0 comments Bridging the islands: Building fluid social experiences across websites Social Web – John Panzer, Joseph Smarr As more sites add social functionality, profiles, friends, and conversations are becoming increasingly fragmented and redundant. But an emerging collection of open technologies aim to help bridge these social islands, allowing users to seamlessly move between sites, bring their...
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What is the Hubbub About Google Buzz API’s? (Live Blogging Google IO 2010)

Posted by walter.roth on May 19, 2010 in Events, Live Blogging, Open, Social, Standards | 0 comments I had started in The World of List View By Roman Guy and Adam Powell … Spent more time in the GoogleWave live coverage of the session so I switched … Changed Rooms to Whats the Hubbub about Google Buzz API’s? Came in when the Seesmic guy was presenting …. Experience with the standards (see photo of slides) … Seesmic Desktop has plugins (e.g., bing, buzz, etc) … Seesmic Web...
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