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OpenSocial for Students
By Rohit GhatolFrom
Pune Google Technology User Grouphttp://pune-gtug.blogspot.com
What is Pune-GTUG?
GTUG stands for Google Technology User Group
http://pune-gtug.blogspot.com
What is OpenSocial?
What is OpenSocial?
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds.
Before we answer that lets understand what social
networking sites do?
Can you name some of the social networking sites?
Social Networking Sites
What do you do on these sites?
We socialize and do some activity on these sites!
What do you do on these sites?
We socialize and do some activity on these sites!
Music
What do you do on these sites?
We socialize and do some activity on these sites!
Scrapbook
What do you do on these sites?
We socialize and do some activity on these sites!
Professional Recommendations
What do you do on these sites?
We socialize and do some activity on these sites!
And so on…..
How do we socialize online without
having to create yet another
social network?
OpenSocial
A common open set of APIs for building social applications across
multiple sites
This is NOT GoogleSocial. It’s about making the Web more
social, not just Google.
Standards-based
html+javascript+REST+OAuth
Lets see some examples
Back to the original Question
What is OpenSocial?
What is OpenSocial?
When you write an Application for a OpenSocial Container (e.g Orkut) it • gives you access to your Friends
What is OpenSocial?
When you write an Application for a OpenSocial Container (e.g Orkut) it • gives you access to your Friends• allows you to read write updates (Activity
Stream)
What is OpenSocial?
When you write an Application for a OpenSocial Container (e.g Orkut) it • gives you access to your Friends• allows you to read write updates (Activity
Stream)• allows you to store and share some information
with your friends
What is OpenSocial?
It turns sites like Orkut into a platform for developers to write more applications and allows users to install these on top of applications like Orkut
So along with sending scraps, you can now interact with your friends in a number of ways. Chat with them, play games with them, plan your hangout places, all without leaving Orkut.
OpenSocial Users – Owner and Viewer
• Two main user roles – Owner and Viewer• Owner is the user who has installed a gadget.– Owner may be a person, an organization or a social object like a music album• Viewer is the user who views the gadget• Viewer and Owner may or may not be related.
Owner and Viewer Relationship
Owner and Viewer Relationship
OpenSocial API
• JavaScript - version 0.8 production– Standard Web development technologies– HTML + Javascript• Can integrate with 3rd party server– REST Services– AtomPub and JSON formats• Templates– Draft phase
Understanding Gadget XML
Understanding Gadget Initialization
Requesting Friend’s List
Requesting Friend’s List
OpenSocial Glossary
• Container – Sites which have OpenSocial Features like Orkut
• User – Who use these sites
• Developer – Who develop applications for OpenSocial Sites
Why OpenSocial?
• Developer : Distribution to 275 Million people
• Containers : More Features• User : More Applications
Why OpenSocial?
When you develop an application-• How do you bring people to your
application?
OR
• Do you take your application to people?
Questions?
?
Links
• OpenSocial - http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
References
• OpenSocial Presentation from Google IO 2008
• OpenSocial Presentation at Indic Threads• OpenSocial Site at http://code.google.com
Disclaimer
• The social networking site Orkut is used in many slides, just for the reason, that the audience is very familiar with this site.
• This presentation has no indentation to highlight one social networking site over other