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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
List of contents
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1: Social Application Container Core Concepts
Chapter 2: Mapping User Relationships with the Social Graph
Chapter 3: Constructing the Foundation of a Social Application Platform
Chapter 4: Defining Features with OpenSocial JavaScript References
Chapter 5: Porting Applications, Profiles, and Friendships
Chapter 6: OpenSocial Activities, Sharing, and Data Requests
Chapter 7: Advanced OpenSocial and OpenSocial Next
Chapter 8: Social Application Security Concepts
Chapter 9: Securing Social Graph Access with OAuth
Chapter 10: The Future of Social: Defining Social Entities Through Distributed Web Frameworks
Chapter 11: Extending Your Social Graph with OpenID
Chapter 12: Delivering User-Centric Experiences with Hybrid Auth
Web Development Core Concepts
Glossary
Colophon
About the author
Jonathan LeBlanc is a technology evangelist and senior software engineer working with the Yahoo! Developer Network in Sunnyvale, California. As a specialist in open source initiatives in 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.
Summary
Programming Social Apps introduces you to the open source tools used on many major social platforms, and explains how technologies such as OpenSocial, Apache Shindig, OAuth, OpenID, Caja, and others work together to help you solve practical issues.
