OSCAR, the hangout robot
A Robot in a Hangout I have been having fun recently playing around with hangouts and I thought it would be nifty to create a robot that can join and be controlled from within a hangout. Rather than wait for…
Retrieving Google+ profile data client side with the sign-in button
Overview profile data retrieval As you might have noticed, the sign-in button, used in the Client Side Flow Example for Google+ history and the Server Side Flow Example, is a very easy and lightweight way to integrate Google+ communication into…
The Google Wallet API from Hangouts
This week, we recorded an episode of Google+ office hours where I have a chat with Jonathan Beri about a demo he created where the Google Wallet API is used from within a hangout app for payments. Check it out!…
Describing history with moments
Great moments in history In a previous post on Google+ history, I discussed why publishers should pay attention to what is happening with Google+ history and explained what the feature is at a high level. In this post, I will…
Google+ Office Hours on Schema.org Markup
This was my first time on the office hours broadcast, I’ll be on again next Tuesday with a special demo I have been working on. There were various hiccups like the audio cutting out when the cameras switch but I…
The how and why of Google+ History
What is Google+ history? At I/O 2012, Google quietly introduced a new feature and an accompanying API for Google+, history, signaling a big push in the near future to what Google believes could be the next big shift for the…
Even more schema.org markup examples
In my last post, I introduced the basics for OpenGraph and Schema.org markup. In this post I’m going to look at more examples of content types. Some background on Schema.org markup Schema.org markup lets you specify objects to let search…