Next week I am going to attend an invited talk given by Google’s OpenSocial evangelist Patrick Chanezon. It is always good to be prepared, so I took a glance at his slides. From what I can tell, Patrick is going to talk about OpenSocial applications that run in a cloud environment.
There is a neat tutorial that teaches you how to build an OpenSocial Gadget based on an application running in the App Engine: Building an OpenSocial App with Google App Engine. I tried to draw the basic idea in a picture:
I drew some more pictures during my attempt to understand the main points: PDF.

June 29, 2008 at 11:41 am |
Excellent slides Markus, do you want to come on stage to co-present tomorrow? You understood it reqlly well and your slides are very clear.
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June 29, 2008 at 4:38 pm |
Patrick, thanks a lot for your friendly offer, but that might be a little bit too pretentious. I am just a small fry ;-)
I am looking forward to your talk tomorrow.
July 1, 2008 at 11:21 pm |
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