Jonathan LeBlanc

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Jonathan LeBlanc

Yahoo! Developer Network

Biography

Jonathan LeBlanc works with the partner integration group in the Yahoo! Developer Network as a principal software engineer / technology evangelist. Focusing on partner relationships and training, as well as external developer integration, Jonathan works with and promotes emerging technologies to aid in the adoption and utilization of new social development techniques. As a software engineer, Jonathan works extensively with social interaction development on the web, developing new methods for linking social networks to drive the ideal of an open web. Prior to Yahoo!, Jonathan worked within both the media production and fantasy product development teams at CBSSports.com, where he developed on products such as the Emmy award winning march madness on demand video player.

Open Source Bridge 2011

Proposals for this user

* Building Social Application Fundamentals with Open Source

Living in a world where social influences can determine success or failure in business, personalization and socialization of products is of vital importance. This talk will explore the core open source technologies that can help you to build user personalization and targeting systems, build relevant social graphs and turn this all into more users who are highly engaged with your product.
Cooking 03/30/2011 11:23PM
Jonathan LeBlanc

Open Source Bridge 2010

Sessions for this user

* SELECT * FROM Internet Using YQL

Treating the internet and all its sources as a database, YQL seeks to allow developers to explore government, social, api and all other external data in a standardized way. Further allowing developers to manipulate this data and mash different sources together, YQL works to open up the web and all its sources.
Chemistry
Jonathan LeBlanc

Proposals for this user

* Harnessing the Social Web with OpenSocial 0.9

Exploring social application development techniques using OpenSocial 0.9, we'll look at how to harness user data to customize an application experience for each user and monetize that experience. Going further, we'll explore the vast improvements coming in the future for OpenSocial.
Chemistry 03/24/2010 09:34PM
Jonathan LeBlanc

Open Source Bridge 2009

Proposals for this user

* Securing Social with OpenSocial and Caja

Our real and online selves are quickly becoming synonymous with one another as we share more and more of our real selves with our online presence. As containers begin to expand the social web with implementations such as OpenSocial, security is quickly becoming a concern. As an open project, Caja meets that demand as a comprehensive JavaScript securer. This talk will explore the implementation of OpenSocial on the social web and why security considerations need to be integrated when creating open standards for this space.
Culture 04/10/2009 07:21PM
Jonathan LeBlanc