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Google’s Campfire One: Introducing OpenSocial

• Posted by Tengku Zahasman on November 6th, 2007 filed in Web App Development, Web2.0


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Google says:

“The Web is better when it’s social”.

OpenSocial has been the hype in the Web 2.0 industry for a few days now. What it does is basically providing a common set of open APIs for developers to build social applications across different sites. This is not something that revolve only around Google apps, but it is more of implementing a standard that developers can adapt so that their application will be able to support the OpenSocial initiative.

Ahh.. what am I doing here explaining all these. Why not just let Google themselves explain what OpenSocial is all about in their Campfire One - Introducing OpenSocial.

Web 2.0 developers…. take note!

5000 Web Apps in 333 seconds

• Posted by Tengku Zahasman on September 22nd, 2007 filed in Web2.0, Technology


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The Web 2.0 universe is getting bigger and larger every day. It’s a huge multi-billion industry with lots of passionate entrepreneurs and startups that want to make a change in the world. Hundreds of interesting web apps are being launched every day these days, from small apps to huge apps, simple to complex, mashups and social networks, brilliant new services emerge from every corners of the world.

Last August, SimpleSpark (a human-edited Web 2.0 directory) has indexed a total of 5000 major web apps in their directory, and they have put up together one nice video to present all of the 5000 Web 2.0 brands in one swipe which spans for over 5 and a half minutes. Sit back and watch:

Don’t you wanna have your own Web 2.0 brand to be listed among them? I do…

Shopping in the “2.0 Era”

• Posted by Tengku Zahasman on August 21st, 2007 filed in Web2.0


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Found this interesting video while browsing through YouTube. Imagine if shopping malls operate in the Web 2.0 way. Each items can be tagged, last vowel letters are dropped from brand names (Quacker becomes Quakr? ), social networks and commenting systems are applied to customers and products, and AJAX turns out to be a detergent.

Though the video is not entirely brilliant - scene-transition wise - and lots of “awkward” scenes too, but it gets the point across. So check it out

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