Highlights from the OpenSocial announcement at Campfire One.

OpenSocial is a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites.

Australian school students talk about what Australia means to them and explain their drawings for ‘Doodle 4 Google My Australia.’

Tom Leung discusses the importance and benefits of optimizing your website’s design and content. He provides a detailed introduction to Website Optimizer, reviews the product’s core features, and walks through a simple A/B test. October 30, 2007.

Questions on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and different types of law enforcement requests from public authorities at the Center for European Policy Studies-Google panel discussion “Online Privacy: Reconsidering Policy Options for the Digital Age,” on 10 October 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.

Questions from the audience on 3rd party certification of companies, IP addresses and personal data, the EU’s mechanism for determining adequacy of third countries’ data protection regimes, and reactions to Google’s call for global privacy standards at the Center for European Policy Studies-Google panel discussion “Online Privacy: Reconsidering Policy Options for the Digital Age,” on 10 October 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.

Hustinx comments on speeches by Peter Fleischer and Alexander Alvaro at the Center for European Policy Studies-Google panel discussion “Online Privacy: Reconsidering Policy Options for the Digital Age,” on 10 October 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.

Alexander Alvaro, a liberal MEP, on surveillance issues and the EU data retention directive, the need for data protection under the EU’s security policies, website blocking and security breach notifications in Europe at the Center for European Policy Studies-Google panel discussion “Online Privacy: Reconsidering Policy Options for the Digital Age,” on 10 October 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.

Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, speaks about global privacy standards, changes to Google’s privacy policies, and the privacy design of Google products such as web history and Street View at the Center for European Policy Studies-Google panel discussion “Online Privacy: Reconsidering Policy Options for the Digital Age,” on 10 October 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.

Peter Hustinx speaks about global privacy standards and his proposals to reform the EU data protection regime at the Center for European Policy Studies-Google panel discussion “Online Privacy: Reconsidering Policy Options for the Digital Age,” on 10 October 2007 in Brussels, Belgium. Introduction by Andrea Renda from CEPS.