Wassup

• The Geek turns Sexy

• Facilitating the Makeover

• Opening Up

• Showtime

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This is Software

This is what Social did to this Software

Bringing Social to Software – Turning the Geek into a Sexy Hunk

What is Facilitating the Makeover, What Principles, Technologies, Standards

•Widgets

•Javascript and HTML, gets plopped into your site

•Cross Domain Scripting Enabled (use proxies)

•Add Social Networking features like Comments, Ratings, Testimonials to any and all software - legacy and even recently created (ASP.net or Java doesn’t matter PHP5 does it all)

•Web Services

•Building Social Networking Web Services around the platform

•Data Portability

•Not being a walled garden

•Facilitating Social Graphs, User’s Content etc in other social networks.

Applied to content sites, social media sharing sites, productivity apps, intranet and other inside the Firewall collaborative solutions, affinity meta-networks and ecommerce sites.

•Open API’s

•Open ID (Now Open ID2)

•Application Platforms

•Connecting Different platforms together to utilize singular functionalities of one within the other.

The future is to expose your platform, features and functionalities, to build a mesh, where the best set of services can be utilized from each provider.

Showtime

• SocialWorld

• Bell Canada (Bell Video Store)

• Newsone.com

You got me now!!

Time for your questions!!