Kevin Marks talks about OpenSocial and Social Applications

-- Contents --
0:00 - Introduction
1:10 - Abstractions for social networks
2:26 - "Tell me who your friends are"
5:42 - Containers & applications
6:44 - OpenSocial has RESTful APIs
9:56 - Why OpenSocial
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Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate at Google, talks about OpenSocial on the first anniversary of OpenSocial's launch. Kevin discusses the history of social applications on the web, the evolution of social networks and where OpenSocial plays a part.

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[GoogleDevelopers]

6:44 - OpenSocial has RESTful APIs

[VondaFoni]

Abstractions for Social Networks seem perfect.

[MohammadAhsan]

First Friends & Networking with which is who you know and have been tune-up its data within the open social; secondly, Data Assistance is what you put in your container & also it handles the troubles from stored info for one user + his friends Thirdly, Activities Strip is what your friends are done 4 outcome-decision network or to invite others who are not yet involved to join by using this tool on an open social; four is messaging as valuable as to use for the social network in the application.

[EdgardoJustice]

Nice work. keep it up. sdfsd

[lockergnome]

Good job, Kevin. :) I'm using 'em on my Ning network.

[webmaven]

Heh. I'm amused at how he gave the camera the finger at 10:56 without realizing it.

That said, a very helpful background summary of OpenSocial's utility.