Josh joins Google.

Quoted: Joshua Schachter, the creator of one of the most important consumer web applications in recent time, has joined Google, according to venture capitalist Josh Koppleman. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Scoops_Up_Del_icio_us_Founder';digg_bgcolor ...

Quoted: Grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other.

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A really nice overview of the State of Open Social from Google's developer advocate, Kevin Marks. 8 minutes

Quoted: Quick interview with Kevin Marks from Google's Open Socialwww.webcommunityforum.com

Get data about a user's public social persona. Somewhat like what FriendFeed is doing - but w/o asking users to set up their feeds.

This site was featured on Google's Campfire One to demo the Friend Connect - which let's web site owners place social widgets on their web sites. So, FriendConnect extends the platforms that OpenSocial widgets can be hosted.

In this case, the site is hosting some iLike OpenSocial widgets.

Quoted: Official site of Ingrid Michaelson, NYC indie-pop artist. Listen to tracks from her new album, videos, show dates, lyrics and more.

Google announces FriendConnect - an extension to OpenSocial. I'm waiting to see the CampFire One video to see what this is really about.

If we annotated faves.com with XFN links, Google would then be able to crawl those, and the connections would be available to the Social Graph API.

Open social blog has posted presentations and source code behind the Campfire One presentation.