Widget NewsObasangjo 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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Why hold a conference like this in Brighton? Well, apart from being the coolest spot on the planet and a great place to go for a day of mind expansion and networking, and quite apart from the shopping opportunities, it is quite simply a digital development city. Rosie Land sets out a lot more than [...]
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Friendster is opening up its platform for widgets. And yes, they call them widgets! You can check the developer documentation now.
Techcrunch
Friendster will allow developers to advertise with their widgets but will not require any revenue sharing; there will be a “widget directory” much like Facebook’s application directory; widgets in Friendster will be promoted virally using [...]
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We’re really pleased to announce the participation of Ankur Shah, a founder of Techlightenment, in Widgety Goodness. Techlightenment is one of the leading Facebook application developers, responsible for the now legendary Bob Dylan application and Socialistics. Ankur has an interesting route to his current role and we expect a similarly interesting view of platforms, widgets [...]
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If you Twitter you can now follow updates from this blog and other Widgety Goodness sources by following widgetygoodness with thanks to http://twitterfeed.com
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Russell Davies is a man fascinated with eggs, bacon, chips, beans and planning. And widgets. He’s been around a bit. He is the third most influential person in the interactive agency industries (according to New Media Age Top 100 Interactive Agencies 2007). He’s keynoting for us from the agency side and we’re well chuffed.
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Russell [...]
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We have partnered with backnetwork to put a social network at the heart of the conference. In fact, we’re so convinced that our backnetwork will form a key part of the event that we’re calling it ‘conference as social network’. All delegates, speakers and sponsors get membership of the network from the purchase of ticket [...]
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