Agenda for the talk on OpenSocial on 20th of June 2008

(Writing Apps for Orkut and Other OpenSocial Containers)

OpenSocial Concept

The web is better when it's social

The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn. 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.

Many sites, one API

A common API means you have less to learn to build for multiple websites. OpenSocial is currently being developed by a broad set of members of the web community. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

Overview of the talk

• What is OpenSocial?

• OpenSocial current status

• Building an OpenSocial Application

• OpenSocial container

• What is next for OpenSocial?

Where to find the information about OpenSocial?

This is in short the write up for 2 hour talk on OpenSocial. It would explain the concepts for business analyst and explain the APIs for developers.

   Date:   Friday, 20th June 2008
   Time:   1830 Hrs to 2030 Hrs - IST
Venue:   Dewang Mehta Auditorium,
                Persistent Systems Ltd 'Bhageerath',
                Senapati Bapat Road,
                Behind Domino's Pizza,
                Pune 411016