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8 Open Source Projects from Google

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Using the code from id Software’s Quake II, WebGL, Canvas, and HTML 5 audio, this in-browser game is an example of the types of web applications developers can create without having to resort to proprietary platforms like Adobe Flash. OpenSocial. Planning a hike across Nepal with a group of buddies from around the world?

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2012 Google I/O - Is This the 2007 Facebook F8?

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As the first Google I/O with the Google+ Team, and a serious read/write API yet to launch, I predict we are about to see an explosion of social apps at a level we haven't seen since Facebook's F8 Conference in 2007 when they launched their platform to the world. The parallels are very similar. Let's look first at the original APIs for both.

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Why as a Developer, I Switched to Blogger.com and Why I'm Staying With It

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OpenSocial Support. Wordpress has plugins, but Google uses the standardized OpenSocial API , along with Google Gadgets , to provide an interface to Widgets and other features within the blog. To code a customized feature, I just need to know a little OpenSocial (which works with many other sites), and boom! The Summary.

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Facebook's Need for Consistency in the Competition With Google

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After all, I see things such as Youtube integrate just fine with Facebook, but Google complains they can't seem to integrate Facebook's platform into Google. Knowing people at all three companies, and being fairly close to Facebook, it's just not the Facebook I know. It just hasn't made sense.

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4 Easy Ways of Subscribing to Feeds in Google Reader

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s feed from one of the most popular blogging platforms like Blogger or Livejournal , or you can simply type in a keyword to get a list of feeds. OpenSocial. Browse Tab: This is actually a group of different ways to get started quickly. The Google Reader folks have created â??bundlesâ?? Use Your Browser. IM/Chat/Talk. Matt Cutts.

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

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as a Platform f. Platform be used for Performance Suppo. Popfly - Microsoft Platform Based on Web 2.0 The XHTML editor will be the tool for writing the contents, while the content manager will be the tool for distributing those contents among the services of the "cloud". Looking Toward the Horizon: Student Engagement and.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

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4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. These are not platforms…these are implementations on top of platforms. A wiki may have all these things, but that does not a platform make. opensocial. I wish that could be enough said. let us know what you think. advertising.