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Harnessing the Social Web with OpenSocial 0.9

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Proposal
Chemistry
Short Form
osb2010-0377
Session notes

Excerpt

Exploring social application development techniques using OpenSocial 0.9, we'll look at how to harness user data to customize an application experience for each user and monetize that experience. Going further, we'll explore the vast improvements coming in the future for OpenSocial.

Description

OpenSocial is an open source project which defines a standardized API for accessing social data and interacting with social features within social networking platforms. Creating a standard method across many supporting platforms, application developers can easily deploy their products over many containers using standardized JavaScript and APIs.

Standardizing methods for accessing and setting social profile information on a third party network through JavaScript or server side APIs, OpenSocial seeks to provide a “develop once, distribute broadly” approach to social network application development. With dozens of OpenSocial supported containers, OpenSocial is an open source project which attempts to standardize web 2.0 development.

This session will review some of the core feature sets of OpenSocial 0.9 and how to socialize application development exploring:

  • Using OpenSocial JavaScript to access profile information
  • Implementing application vitality streams to drive an application viral
  • Simplifying standard utilities such as AJAX or JSON manipulation
  • Exploring OpenSocial server-side API standards

Further to a look at the newest version of OpenSocial, we’ll explore the new standards and enhancements coming in OpenSocial 1.0.

Tags

javascript, applications, api, opensocial, social

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Speaker

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    Jonathan LeBlanc

    Yahoo! Developer Network

    Biography

    Jonathan LeBlanc works with the partner integration group in the Yahoo! Developer Network as a principal software engineer / technology evangelist. Focusing on partner relationships and training, as well as external developer integration, 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, developing new methods for linking social networks to drive the ideal of an open web. Prior to Yahoo!, Jonathan worked within both the media production and fantasy product development teams at CBSSports.com, where he developed on products such as the Emmy award winning march madness on demand video player.

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      • Room: Steel
      • Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
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