The Final Countdown! (Submit your Orkut OpenSocial Applications)

(Blogging from the Google office in Bangalore)

3rd day at the Open Social Hackathon...

The final countdown has started for the launch of Orkut apps in Europe!

Just got done with a talk which was about Architectural issues and what to keep in mind. Load balancing etc.

Tomorrow guys here are going to get their applications tested by some college kids and googlers - so everyones busy trying to get their application fully ready.

OpenSocial 0.7 has seem some modification and bug fixes.

There's also been a new group set up at Google Groups - Orkut Announce.
This group is going to be used to send updates on new features, bug fixes, and sandboxstatus to Orkut developers.

There's also a new Orkut Developer blog which has been rolled out. Be sure to check that out too.

Another highlight has been OpenSocial TShirts to all of us out here :-)



Well the final launch seems to be around the corner...
Though it'll be a staged release and it might still be some time before the public gets to taste some of the apps.

In case any of you want to get your Orkut Applications tested and reviewed by us here...feel free to drop us a comment.

Just some additional notes:
- Google offices seem to be the coolest place to work at!
- Unlimited chocolates, drinks, snacks etc
- Awesome food (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
- Amazingly huge monitors for developers and designers.

Oh yeah! They love their cricket here too - The entire office was watching the final stages of the nail-biting India vs Sri Lanka finish. Guys were clapping for wides!

Open Social Hackathon (Bangalore)

Apologies for not having posted for a long time - but as THE day for the launch comes closer...
the number of posts shall increase.

Currently in the Google office at Bangalore and the next few days are totally dedicated to Open Social. So going to be learning quite a lot and posting stuff too.

Here are some pictures to start off with...



Hackathon in progress: