OpenSocial: Open for Business

Patrick Chanezon is API Evangelist at Google since 2005. These days his main interests are the OpenSocial API and social software, Google APIs, REST, SOAP and Ajax, Java, Groovy, Javascript, PHP, Ruby and Python. Previously he’s bee working on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He’s the co-founder of the ROME – Atom and RSS utilities in java open source project.

More on his blog at http://wordpress.chanezon.com/

Patrick is French, so he takes long vacations in the summer and likes to drink red wine with baguettes and stinky cheese while wearing a beret. Apart from programming and reading books his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

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Paul Lindner is the Manager of the hi5 Platform, a pioneering OpenSocial Container. Since its inception, Paul has been an active contributor and advocate in advancing the OpenSocial specification and objectives.

He has spent the last 20+ years leading efforts to make the Internet a better place. Some of Paul’s past successes include: developing and promoting the Internet Gopher in the early ‘90s; co-authoring the mod_perl Developer’s Cookbook ; scaling Six Apart’s Typepad to support millions of users worldwide; and building large, mission-critical Web systems for the International Telecommunications Union, Red Hat, Critical Path and The UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Minnesota.

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Maxwell Newbould is the product owner and development manager for the MySpace Developer Platform’s OpenSocial container. He has been working for MySpace since March 2006, and was the first developer at MySpace’s Seattle office. Recently, he has been touring the globe speaking about MySpace Developer Platform and OpenSocial. Maxwell also provides engineering support for companies building applications for the world’s most popular social networking and lifestyle portal. Previously to MySpace, Maxwell worked in government, finance, travel and technology sectors.

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Sachin Rekhi serves as a Product Manager at imeem, a leading social network that enables users to share, discover and interact with all kinds of media including music, videos, and photos. Sachin oversees the imeem Media Platform, which allows third party developers to build media-centric applications. Sachin is responsible for designing the platform as well as supporting its developer community.

Prior to joining imeem in 2008, Sachin founded Anywhere.FM, a web music player that allows users to upload, play, and discover music online. Anywhere.FM was acquired by imeem in January 2008. Previously Sachin held marketing, product management, and engineering roles at Microsoft, Paetec Communications, and Goldman Sachs.

Sachin earned a BS in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Finance from The Wharton School.

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