November 30th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
It’s Friday again. Getting ready for the weekend? I know I am. I’m thinking about what mapping project to do over the weekend.
If you’re in the same situation, this video might be helpful. On Wednesday I did another Google Maps Garage. In this …
November 30th, 2012 | by Unknown | published in Google OpenSocial
Paris, France – November 30, 2012 – OpenSocial Foundation announced today on becoming an OW2 associate member. This formal relationship brings two market-leading open foundations together, bringing the message of social cloud middleware to a larger worldwide market. OpenSocial Foundation is a Platinum sponsor and exhibitor at this year’s OW2Con, with foundation president Mark Weitzel keynoting today on how open standards and open source are driving social business.
“The OpenSocial Foundation continues its commitment to reaching out across the industry to build a robust social business ecosystem. We are excited to work closer with OW2 and it’s consortium members to further advance standard based social middleware.” said Mark Weitzel, President of the OpenSocial Foundation
“We were excited to have OpenSocial as a Platinum sponsor of OW2 Con this year.” said Cedric Thomas, CEO of the OW2 Consortum. “With the growth of cloud computing and SaaS delivered social business applications there is a great deal of synergy between OpenSocial and OW2. It only seemed natural to find ways to align our efforts more closely together. We look to move away from legacy portal systems and towards social systems of engagement, we look forward to working with the OpenSocial and Apache Rave communities to define and build the next generation open, standards based, social platform.“
Announcement of OpenSocial 2.5 specification.
In addition, the OpenSocial Foundation also announces today the general availability of version 2.5 of the OpenSocial specification. This release adds in new features that were previously in incubation, such as the Common Container, which formalizes the APIs for application lifecycle and management, as well as adds new capabilities such as the ability to introspect the services with an OpenSocial platform through a metadata API.
“OpenSocial provides the leading and most mature standards based component model for SaaS delivered social business applications.”, said Mark Weitzel, President of the OpenSocial Foundation.
“Version 2.5 continues to set the benchmark for community driven innovation and fosters interoperability, choice, consistency, innovation, and quality between social platforms and 3rd party applications.”
For a more complete list of the changes, see the full release notes at http://bit.ly/os25publishedspecissues, and you can download the full specification at http://docs.opensocial.org/display/OSD/Specs.
About OW2
Founded in January 2007, OW2 is an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology Projects, including ASM,Bonita, eXo Platorm, Funambol, JOnAS, Joram, Orbeon Forms, PEtALS, SpagoBI and XWiki. More information at: www.ow2.org.
About OpenSocial
The OpenSocial Foundation, an industry recognized standards body, dedicated to advancing the social web through community innovation and open source. Established in 2008, the Foundation provides the leading and most mature standards based component model for SaaS delivered social business applications. Widely supported by a majority of leading consumer and enterprise social platforms, such as IBM, Jive, and SugarCRM, the OpenSocial specification fosters the development of a growing set of socially-aware off-the-shelf applications. Through open source projects such as Apache Rave and Shindig, it provides a well-defined way for 3rd party applications to richly interact with users directly in their activity stream. For more information, visit www.opensocial.org.
November 30th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
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November 30th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
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November 30th, 2012 | by Ashley Chandler | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
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November 29th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
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November 29th, 2012 | by Raj Sarkar | published in Google Enterprise
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November 29th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
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November 29th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
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November 29th, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
One of the top requests we hear from publishers who manage multiple websites is the ability to block different ads for different sites. For instance, you may want to block a category of ads from appearing on a children’s site you run, but allow those…
November 29th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
Mobile technology is making it easier than ever for people to research products and connect with businesses while they’re on the go. But we all know that sometimes it helps to speak to a real person before making a purchase decision. In fact, researc…
November 28th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
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November 28th, 2012 | by Yamini Gupta | published in Google DoubleClick
A recent study by eMarketer estimates that more than 25% of US digital display dollars will come through real-time bidding (RTB) by 2016. As brand dollars move to this channel, publishers are left to answer a few key questions.Over the next few weeks,…
November 28th, 2012 | by Ariel | published in Google Enterprise
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November 28th, 2012 | by Alexis R. Shellhammer | published in Google DoubleClick
A recent study by eMarketer estimates that more than 25% of US digital display dollars will come through real-time bidding (RTB) by 2016. As brand dollars move to this channel, publishers are left to answer a few key questions.Over the next few weeks,…