- Paperback: 546 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media (Sep 3 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449394914
- ISBN-13: 978-1449394912
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 17.9 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #462,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 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.
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Great read, detail but maybe too detailed?, Sep 23 2011
By Doron Katz "Doron Katz" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Programming Social Applications: Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks (Paperback)
With the inception of Google+, along with the already-dominant Facebook and Twitter, it is important that developers who are supporting existing applications, look to extend their brand across the social-sphere, and this book, Programming Social Applications , aims to educate the readers on the various options available out there today. The author, Jonathan LeBlanc starts off with the basics, underlying the various containers that make up a Social Application, before looking at the arguments between proprietary and open-source implementations.There are various aspects to hosting the application, client-side, and it's infrastructure requirements, using Flash as an example, or HTML5, as well as server-side, and a combination of both. What is good about this book, is that the author provides various case-studies, to emphasise good v.s bad design as well as explore privacy issues associated with mapping user profile data to your application.
All in all, the book is quite detailed, it does go through examples, including coding examples, and various design methodologies that make popular widget and apps on Facebook for example, which I must admire. I didn't have any issues with the book, besides perhaps it being too thick, which is why I probably just skip to the appropriate sections. I quite enjoyed it, although I do take bits and pieces of it to use as are appropriate for my projects, but this book fits well as a reference, as well as in-depth page-to-page read. Recommend this completely.
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