Hack Day at Xobni

[Mark Halvorson]

I spoke with Xobni yesterday about their upcoming release of
"Contextual Gadgets" in Outlook - on 5/26 they will be bringing the
same contextual gadget experience people have in Gmail to the
desktop. Upon launch they said they will be supporting Evernote,
Dropbox, WebEx, JIRA, Yammer, Google Translate, Google Maps, Yelp,
YouTube, Flicker, and other gadgets. They will also be creating an
OpenSocial based app marketplace (similar to Jive's marketplace).

In the conversation they asked if the OpenSocial Foundation would
support them in their release on 5/26 with a blog post on
blog.opensocial.org as well as mentioning OpenSocial Foundation
support in their press release.

I suggested they send me a draft of a guest blog post for
blog.opensocial.org as well as a draft of the press release which I
will post to the PR group for everyone to vote on.

They are planning an OpenSocial hack day on 5/9 - the day before
Google IO - and extended an invitation to any of the board members who
are in town. I am hoping to go for part of it:
http://blog.xobni.com/2011/04/14/calling-all-developers/

Xobni will be attending the State of the Union Event and I suggested
they also lead a topic at the Interop event on 5/12.

They extended an offer to sponsor something at their Hack Day but
weren't sure what would be in it for us. They are expecting ~200-250
attendees so perhaps an OpenSocial related give away along with a
Flyer about the State of the Union event (to get some last minute
registrations) would be a good idea.

Please let me know if you have questions or want more information.

Thanks,
Mark

[Mark Weitzel]

Mark H,
Thanks for reaching out to Xobni. Would be great to support them in getting a blog post out.

I'd be very interested in attending--do you know where we sign up or do you have a contact? I agree it would be great to do some cross pollination to get some more attendees at the SotU. Would they be interested in sending a note to their folks that have registered with the SotU eventbrite?

Mark W.

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[Mark Halvorson]

The sign up link is above. http://blog.xobni.com/2011/04/14/calling-all-developers/

I'm sure they would love to talk to you - I will send an introduction
email.

Thanks,
Mark H.