Archive for the 'Google' Category
Google Friend Connect Looks Broad Reaching
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 13th, 2008 in Google, OpenSocial.I was at the Google campfire event tonight for the launch of Google Friend Connect. At first pass there is a LOT to like about this. Social media is going even more mainstream and will start to live outside of “traditional” social networking sites.
Now connections can be effectively “portable” to any site that […]
Google Friend Connect Makes Any Site Social
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford May 12th, 2008 in Google, OpenSocial, business, social media.Google will officially announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect in about an hour. I will be on the conference call to learn as much as possible as to how Google Friend Connect will work.
Here is what we know for sure at this point:
The Friend Connect service will help website owners grow engagement by […]
Google Campfire Monday: Friend Connect Launching?
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 10th, 2008 in Google, OpenSocial.Google Campfire Monday: Launching Google Friend Connect? We have been hearing some rumblings that Google has some big announcement around a product set of API’s for use with Open Social that is supposedly called “Friend Connect”. In theory it might allow Google Open Social developers to have access to profile information and allow those data […]
Google Apps & Salesforce Apps = Business Apps
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 17th, 2008 in Google, business.Google Apps & Salesforce Apps = Business Apps. Eric Schmidt from Google discusses the connection of Google apps and Saleforce.com
New and interesting opportunities now exist for companies to build exciting business apps. Now try to imagine that layered on the social graph and you can see some really amazing business apps with social components. Imagine […]
Google Social Graph API
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 10th, 2008 in Google, OpenSocial, social networks.The Google Social Graph API lets you make interesting connections. Bringing those connections to the surface is quickly becoming increasingly important for business and social applications.
This is going to be a trend for the foreseeable future. Users want to see their social graph; it makes the applications more useful and engaging.
With the Google Social […]
At the Second Google Campfire tonight Google launched their app engine platform for developers.
You can now run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. The Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications. Here is FAQ on the Google App Engine.
It will initially […]
Introducing the OpenSocial Foundation
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 25th, 2008 in Facebook, Google, MySpace, OpenSocial, Yahoo!.Google announced today in conjunction with Yahoo! and MySpace, the formation of the OpenSocial Foundation, a non-profit entity, “dedicated to the sustainable and open development of the OpenSocial initiative and related intellectual property.” It’s a shrewd move by the three that leaves Facebook in an even lonelier place inside its walled garden.
In its prospectus, […]
Google OpenSocial Video Interview
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford March 6th, 2008 in Google, MySpace, OpenSocial.Google OpenSocial Interview with Platform Developer Advocate Patrick Chanezon. Google rarely does video interviews so I was very excited to have the opportunity to capture this interview with Patrick.
Too bad I didn’t keep the camera running for the next 1.5 hours while we continued to chat about all the opportunities for businesses, brands and […]
Comp Sci salaries rocket behind Google and Facebook competition
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 31st, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook News, Google, facebook Business.TechCrunch writes that computer science salaries in the silicon valley are soaring amid heavy competition between Google and Facebook for qualified coders. At Stanford, for instance, salaries for grads last year averaged about $70,000 whereas this year’s class is averaging just shy of six figures. And masters of comp sci grads are finding themselves wrestling […]
