full schedule of speakers posted

Finally I’ve almost nailed down the speaker schedule with one or two surprises still in process. It’s 95% done and it’s looking great - this is widgety talent on a grand scale.

OpenSocial is an engine, not a aeroplane!

Obasangjo Dare is a constructive critic of OpenSocial and a Microsoft guy. He raises a lot of pertinent issues in a long post. I think OpenSocial will be a big story at Widgety Goodness. He boils it down to a five sentence elevator pitch here:
Dare Obasanjo
OpenSocial is billed as a standardized widget platform [...]

Making Widgety Goodness

Putting together a conference such as Widgety Goodness is an exhausting process - mainly because we decided at the start that we were going to do it very quickly and in realtime. That is, we knew things were moving fast in the widgetsphere and we wanted to be able to reflect that as we put [...]

OpenSocial will be big theme at Widgety Goodness

The big story of this week, the launch of OpenSocial, will no doubt be a big theme at Widgety Goodness. I talked today with Ankur Shah of Techlightenment, who is lined up to speak on the Facebook platform. He will be expanding his talk to cover developing for OpenSocial. And Musestorm, who are speaking (CEO, [...]