#innovate2011 Announcements: XCommerce, Magento, Facebook Open Graph 2.0, Milo, eBay Integrations
At Innovate 2011 there were some big announcements, and lots of tweets (which are now lost in twitterverse). Here’s a condensed list with links to the released products:
X.Commerce Fabric Released
X.commerce is a message bus that sends and receives messages from capabilities registered with the platform. Download it today and starting integrating with the fabric:
www.x.com
Paypal Access
You can login with Facebook, Twitter, why not Paypal? Just released is their identity solution:
https://www.x.com/developers/x.commerce/products/paypal-access
Milo Opens up it’s API
Go local with Milo. I personally can’t believe I haven’t been using this on my mobile phone – my new favorite app!
http://milo.com/api-docs/
RedLaser shares their SDK
Download today to start scanning barcodes from your app
https://www.x.com/developers/ebay/products/redlaser
Facebook Open Graph 2.0
Kaite Mitic and Matthew Mengerink both announced integrations with Facebook Open Graph 2.0. We saw a little bit of if at dev camp, too and it just released as a Magento Core Extension:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Magento+Core/extension/8041/social_facebook
New Channels for Ebay and Milo in Magento
tbd, there is no information released on this
New Adobe/Omniture analytics dashboard for Magento
tbd, there is no information released on this
Magento 2.0
There is a lot of anticipation for Magento 2, which will be released in Q3 2012. One of the most anticipated new features: unit testing! It will be a refactoring, not a rewrite and you can participate in it here:
https://wiki.magento.com/
Magento App Store Released
A new version of www.magentoconnect.com was released – the app store of ecommerce!
Magento Go gets Extensions
Extensions will now be available for Magento Go, Developers can submit their extensions for all platforms. There will also be ‘Trusted Extensions’ that will be qualified by Magento (all Go extensions have be Trusted Extensions)
Magento is offering Free Developer Training
Training just got introduced in the beginning of the year and the 5 day course costs $3,850! Well now you can get it streamed to your computer for free!
http://www.magentocommerce.com/services/on-demand
Very excited to see all the new technologies get integrated and implemented!
We announced our group gifting plug in for retailers at the show. The feedback we got from merchants, developers, and online shoppers was incredible.
http://www.socialgift.com
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