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Eric Meeks (UCSF)Leslie Yuan (UCSF)Griffin Weber (Harvard)Mini Kahlon (UCSF)

A Highly Scalable Approach to Extending Functionality of the Research Networking Tool Profiles with the OpenSocial Standard

•*Profiles Research Networking Software

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UCSF ProfilesA Research Networking Tool

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UCSF Profiles Future Power User

•Updates & Activities

•Heather Fullerton is traveling to the AAN conference in Hawaii

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•Donna Ferriero is at the School of Medicine today

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Social Networking Applicationsor Gadgets on LinkedIn

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OpenSocial

• OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based social network applications, developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks.

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Profiles & OpenSocial Today

Make Profiles an OpenSocial Container

• Build a library of useful gadgetsMentor/Mentee• Document Sharing with SlideShare.net

• Influence the OpenSocial API

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It really works!

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Integrated Search

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Mentor Gadget Profile View

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Slide Sharing on Profiles

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Mentor Gadget Source CodeXML, HTML & JavaScript

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How did we make Profiles OpenSocial?Apache Shindig & The Profiles API

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Future OpenSocial Gadget Library

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An Open Community forApplication Sharing

OpenSocial Gadget Library

UCSF

Profiles

Harvard

ProfilesLinkedIn iGoogle Stanford VIVO

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Thanks!

• Harvard Catalyst

• Jeff Wang

• Justin Kruger

• Rachael Sak

• The Apache Shindig Team

• Andy Smith (IBM), Mark Weitzel (IBM) and the OpenSocial Foundation