Programming Social Applications

Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: O&#8217;Reilly Media (August 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449394914
ISBN-13: 978-1449394912

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Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You’ll learn how to create third-party applications for existing sites, build engaging social graphs, and develop products to host your own socialized experience.

Programming Social Apps focuses on the OpenSocial platform, along with Apache Shindig, OAuth, OpenID, and other tools, demonstrating how they work together to help you solve practical issues. Each chapter uncovers a new layer in the construction of highly viral social applications and platforms.

Learn how to build applications on top of social containers, and leverage existing user data
Map user relationships with a social graph, and extend social links between users
Customize your application with user profile information and encourage growth through friendships
Build a scalable social application container with OpenSocial and Shindig
Dive into advanced OpenSocial topics such as templating and data pipelining methods
Protect your container and its users against malicious code

About the Author
Jonathan LeBlanc is a technology evangelist and principal software engineer working with the Yahoo! Developer Network in Sunnyvale, California. Specializing in open source initiatives around the implementation of social engagement services, 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, engaging in new methods for targeting the social footprint of users to drive the ideal of an open web.