Dimensions
228 x 178 x 21mm
A complete guide to writing OpenSocial applications that target MySpace and can interoperate with 50+ top social networking sites.
- From casual widgets to full-blown professional applications, one step at a time
- Includes extensive source code and hands-on coding exercises.
- Covers mashups, data endpoints, REST, performance, scalability, security, and the entire app lifecycle.
- By two leading-edge MySpace and OpenSocial developers with an unsurpassed understanding of both platforms.
Social networking development is one of the fastest growing areas of the software marketplace. With the launch of OpenSocial on the MySpace Development Platform, third-party developers can write applications that reach several million users practically overnight. This book will show them exactly how to do so. The authors, leading OpenSocial and MySpace developers, take readers step-by-step from writing casual widgets to feature-rich professional applications. Using a realistic sample application, they begin with entry-level concepts, then move towards increasingly advanced techniques that demonstrate the full capabilities of OpenSocial. Readers will tour the MySpace Developer Platform; learn how to retrieve MySpace data; persist information; install and distribute apps; create mashups; work with REST; and much more. The book contains a full section on handling application growth, covering performance, scalability, and even application marketing. All source code is provided, as well as hands-on coding exercises designed to help readers master each of the book's most sophisticated techniques, and use OpenSocial to build MySpace apps that interoperate with other social network systems.
