Google ‘Programmable Web’ speaker

We’re very pleased to announce that Matthew Trewhella, one of the engineers who’s worked very closely on OpenSocial, will be speaking at Widgety Goodness. His presentation will be “The Programmable Web”, and will cover the development of gadget applications and Web 2.0 and Google’s efforts in this space, including OpenSocial.

sponsors

I’m delighted to announce three top widgety sponsors:

Turning point for Facebook?

Facebook has had an extraordinary run of good luck, mostly created by themselves. They have started to believe their own hype, which is always a dangerous thing to do - ask Gordon Brown. But various forces are mustering on the near horizon, and these forces pose a mortal threat to Facebooks ludicrous claim to be [...]

New social network platforms coming soon

Rumours from Tagged and news from hi5 that they are building out platforms in the style of Facebook add to the value of the Widgety Goodness conference. This is such a fast moving space, it is going to be hard to keep up as more social networks roll out platforms. The most interesting development here [...]