Applications For Paul Graham’s Office Hours Close Today. Get Your Applications In Now.

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One of the most popular Disrupt sessions is Paul Graham’s Office Hours. (See video below). We are bringing it back to Disrupt SF on Monday, September 12th.

If you are attending Disrupt and would like to be considered, be sure you fill out the form below and fill it out soon. Applications are going to close this Saturday, September 10th, at midnight PDT.

We will consult with Graham to select the best candidates, based on which ones can get the most out of the interaction onstage and will provide insightful lessons for the audience. At the start of the session, Paul will select five companies from those finalists. All finalists need to be prepared and ready to walk on stage immediately.

Get your applications in now!

Paul Graham is a partner at Y Combinator. He is also the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. Graham has a B.A. from Cornell. He earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences (specializing in computer...

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Google+ API Not Close …Unless You’re “Trusted”, Then It’s Ready

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Just yesterday, we wrote that those developers waiting on a Google+ API would have to wait a while — months, even. This disappointing information came to us by way of one eager developer based on what they were told by a project manager for Google+. And that’s undoubtedly the case for most developers. But not all of them.

If you happen to be what Google considers a “Trusted Tester”, you could be getting access to the API much sooner. Maybe even in the next few days.

What constitutes a “Trusted Tester”? Well, one qualification is if you’re backed by Google’s venture wing, Google Ventures. This will probably piss some developers off. I’m sure there will be 500 stories about the conflicted nature, right? But in reality, it makes sense. This is more or less Google testing out the API with a small group well before it’s fully ready for prime time.

Still, it is an early jump on what could end up being an important social sharing layer.

How do I know all of this? We have an email that Google Ventures sent to portfolio companies today announcing the service. Find it below.

Hi -

The Google+ team is going to be starting to roll out some of their APIs to our Trusted Tester program in the next few days (followed by a more general availability in the next few weeks). They’ve agreed to give this early access to a small number (2-4) of our portfolio companies.

If you’re interested, we’d like you to at least be able to commit to building a small “hello world” app quickly (in the next 3-5 days). This stage of the program is more about feedback on docs and code for now, with an intent to have more meaningful interactions with G+ as more APIs roll out.

If you’re interested, please email me back with your company name, contact name, and email address.

Sam

A Google project headed by Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz, Google+ is designed to be the social extension of Google. Its features focus on making online sharing easy for...

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