Announcing a New OpenSocial and Emerging Social Technology Book
September 8th, 2011 | Published in Google OpenSocial, Uncategorized
I'm happy to announce that, as of yesterday, Programming Social Applications is officially out in print. I normally wouldn't post on the OpenSocial blog about my own book but the content is specifically designed for this community, so it's a good fit. Within the book I cover topics on:- Building social applications and containers using Shindig and OpenSocial.
- The vast array of features and functionality within the OpenSocial specification.
- Front-end code security tools like Caja and ADsafe.
- Authentication systems with OpenID
- Authorization systems with OAuth 1.0a and 2.0
- Emerging social technologies like Activity Streams, Open Graph Protocol, PubSubHubbub, Salmon and others.
You can purchase the book here or get a free sample here. For those of you that pick up the book, remember that Chapter 12 (OpenID / OAuth hybrid extension), Appendix I (Environment Setup) and Appendix II (Terms) are offered as an online only download from O'Reilly since the book was getting a little large and we didn't want to simply delete content.
Please send feedback and tell me what you think - I'd love to hear from the community!
Jonathan LeBlanc (@jcleblanc)
Jonathan LeBlanc is a principal developer evangelist with X.commerce. Jonathan has been a member of the OpenSocial community for over three years and is the author of O'Reilly's "Programming Social Applications".
Jonathan LeBlanc is a principal developer evangelist with X.commerce. Jonathan has been a member of the OpenSocial community for over three years and is the author of O'Reilly's "Programming Social Applications".