Tender Surrender

As goo Home launched its sandbox, goo is planning to hold an OpenSocial Hackathon together with OpenSocial Japan Community, Recruit Media Technology Labs.

OpenSocial Hackathon has been held periodically a few times so far, this time is trying to use the first Japanese sandbox as a container.

Date: 24th April, 2009 10:00-18:00

Place: Recruit Media Technology Labs Office

Capacity: 35 people

Conditions to attend:

• Interests in OpenSocial Development
• Experience with JavaScript Development
• Experience with OpenSocial Gadget Development
  Following tutorial will help you train yourself
  http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/tutorial/tutorial-0.8.html
• Own a notebook computer to develop with
• Can speak Japanese

We will hold an Ideathon beforehand. Attendees will be required to join this too.

Date: 14th April, 2009 18:30-20:30

Place: Recruit Media Technology Labs Office

If you are planning to join, please RSVP from following both 2 urls

http://atnd.org/events/472

http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-hackathon-0424

Please read through the top page.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

 On 26th March 2009, goo Home finally started to provide sandbox environment which aims to publish OpenSocial functionality.

 Today, my article about what Google FriendConnect’s API will impact on SocialWeb is posted to gihyo.jp.

Personally, massively impressed with FriendConnect, I couldn’t stop writing the article. I will post English version of the article here, by courtesy of gihyo.jp.

Also, I’ve started series of articles about OpenSocial hands on with Yoichiro Tanaka, who is OpenSocial Guru like me, first OpenSocial book writer in japan, and the developer of OpenSocial Development Environment at the same time.