Late last month, Google hosted their annual developer gathering, Google I/O, in San Francisco. Among the many interesting talks was one by Joseph Smarr, Plaxo’s Chief Platform Artchitect, someone involved deeply in all the aspects of the Open Stack. If you want to understand what’s going on in the emerging Social Web, you have to watch his talk, entitled “The Social Web: An Implementer’s Guide.”
Joseph explains how you can now leverage technologies for openness and interoperability to:
– Streamline your sign up flow
– Put an end to “re-friend madness”
– Kill the “password anti-pattern”
– Ride the “virtuous cycle”
His talk includes several demos. Check it out:
Alternatively, you can access the slides over at Joseph’s blog.
To quote Joseph, “The web is now social. And the Social Web is now open.”
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