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OSDC 2008 started today with the Google Hackathon, an all day hackfest based around google technologies and specifically geared towards the open source crowd.

It started with an overview of Google’s OpenSocial technology, a standardized API for creating social networking ‘gadgets’ (not widgets, not sprockets, not wadgets, etc). The technique is centered around XML specifications that contain the HTML, CSS and JS neccesary to run your gadget within a OpenSocial container.

This OpenSocial container contains the ’social’ information that makes a application social like friendslists, if the current viewer is the owner or just a viewer, relationships etc.

After you’ve finished writing your XML file you upload it to a publicly availble URL and add it to your OpenSocial enabled social network to make your app work.

The link to the hackathon site (and from there to the opensocial tutorials) is: tinyurl.com/osdchackathon