We also had a great discussion round last saturday at the Barcamp Berlin around OpenSocial. It was 1 day old back then and thus not much was really known or figured out. We had the pleasure though to have David Recordon with us who works for Six Apart, which is one of the launch partners […]

Now up on stage is Tristan Nitot, co-founder of the Mozilla Europe Foundation.
Looking back to 1999-presence: Mozilla is doomed, even JWZ quit. He asked the audience to stand up and then those people sit down who use Firefox mainly and nearly everybody sat down. So he’s now more positive about the future again
Germany […]

I am attending the talk about tagging by James Kalbach here at the Web 2.0 Expo now but well, it’s really just an overview. One thing he says is though:
“Use comma-separated tags instead of space-separated ones”
This makes sense as it makes you easier to tag terms with a space in them. But that would only […]

Yesterday we heard a session done by Patrick Chanezon about Google’s OpenSocial and while there was not really much new (he mostly showed demos) at least one thing was getting clearer to me. So first my understanding was a bit like Java:
“Write once, run everywhere”
but even David Recordon hinted at the Barcamp session about OpenSocial […]

It’s over now and it has been great here in Berlin, I hope it will stay that way now that the Web 2.0 Expo starts. These days have quite inspiring on the Open Social Networking front, not only because Google’s Open Social has been a topic (and hype) but also because some people of (or […]

For quite a while I wanted to do a little writeup on plone.commenting actually
What is it?
As you might have noticed the exisiting commenting framework in CMF/Plone is quite dated and has several drawbacks like

it does not allow to workflow comments (you might want moderation for various reasons)
it does not allow to insert spam […]

There have been lots of rumours about what sort of social network Google is going to create in order to compete with FaceBook et al.
Now the riddle is solved and actually it is no new social network at all. Instead it’s a set of APIs named OpenSocial (press release here). It will be released tomorrow […]

Pownce was for a long time missing something it’s main competitor Twitter had from the beginning: an API. Not anymore!
As Leah Culver reports on the Pownce Blog a first version of an API has been released now. Unfortunately mainly for reading notes but not for posting. This should come soon. It might be interesting to […]