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