Ajaxworld Opensocial Presentation

Introducing OpenSocial “Building Social Ajax applications with OpenSocial” Chris Schalk Developer Advocate Google

Agenda

What is OpenSocial and Why is it important?

A Technical Overview of OpenSocial

JavaScript APIs

Container Software - Shindig

REST APIs

Where to find more information on OpenSocial

Agenda

JavaScript APIs

REST APIs

What is OpenSocial?

OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web

It is being developed by Google in conjunction with partners from the Web/Social Application development community

Why OpenSocial is Important?

The Web is better when its social

Isn’t the Web social already?

100s of millions of users already have signed up for social networks around the world

That’s great, but we believe it can get better

The problem of social network development “ .. But what if you want to build an application that will run on multiple social websites?”

Problem: Developers have to learn multiple APIs to publish in multiple environments

Solution: OpenSocial allows developers to write applications to a common standard API that will run on multiple websites!

As each social website opens its environment to developers, it exposes an API

OpenSocial solves this problem

What can OpenSocial do for the Web?

It’s about more , more , more

More applications can be built by developers

More websites can run these applications

More users can use these applications

For Web developers this equates to distribution , distribution , distribution!

OpenSocial is not Google Social

The evolution of OpenSocial…

“ It is about working with open standards and open partners in a collaborative fashion to build the best technology”

OpenSocial in the US Pictures of hackerthon Partner Hackathon at SixApart in San Francisco Pictures of container meeting Numerous Hackathons held both at Google and at Partners sites

On Site Google Hackathons

We supplied Power, Wifi, & Pizza!

OpenSocial in Japan Pictures of hackerthon 関連ドキュメントの日本語化を検討中 Pictures of container meeting 世界でも最も Social Site が成功している国の一つ

パートナーのオンライン /

オフラインの参加をサポート

ハッカーソン

OpenSocial Container Provider Meeting

OpenSocial in India Pictures of hackerthon Hacking in Delhi Pictures of container meeting Did a multi-city tour in Fall 07 - introducing OpenSocial

Kicking off Hackathon in Bangalore

OpenSocial Container Provider Meeting

Who’s working on OpenSocial? Over 200 other influential companies… amiando Animoto Appirio Bebo Bleacher Report BonstioNet Brad Anderson Bunchball, Inc BuyFast Cardinal Blue Software Chakpak Chronus Corporation Ci&T Inc come2play CurrentTV E-junkie Engage.com eTwine Holdings, Inc. Fendoo Ltd Flixster FotoFlexer Friendster Grimmthething Guerreiro Consult HedgeStop.com Hi5 Hungry Machine Hyves IG.com (Division of Brasil Telecom) iFamily, Inc iLike Imeem Indeed.com KlickSports, Inc. LabPixies Ltd. LimitNone LinkedIn LjmSite LoveMyGadgets LuvGoogleGadgets Mesa Dynamics, LLC Mixi MuseStorm Inc MySpace Netvibes NewsGator Nike Ning NY Times Shelfari O Globo Online Oberon Media Oracle Orkut Outside.In PayPal Plaxo PROTRADE Puxa Qloud RockYou Salesforce.com …

OpenSocial is not just for friends

There is an untapped Enterprise potential

Instead of friends just sharing photos, messages business partners can interact via social networks

Google is now partnering with many influential business application providers

OpenSocial Roadmap

Version 0.5 was released in a “developer release” on Nov 1st.

First “sandbox” was made available on Orkut

Version 0.6 was released in December

Initial version of Shindig server software was launched as Apache incubator project

Other sandboxes came live - Hi5, Ning, Plaxo …

Version 0.7 (production) was released in January

MySpace, Hi5, Orkut officially launching “very soon”

Gartner Technology Hype curve Case Study: OpenSocial Case Study: OpenSocial

OpenSocial Roadmap a la the “Hype curve” Case Study: OpenSocial Case Study: OpenSocial

Agenda

JavaScript APIs

REST APIs

OpenSocial APIs overview

People and Friends Data API Access friends information programmatically

Activities Data API See what you’re friends are up to Share what you are doing

Persistence Data API

Share data with your friends, the world

The core OpenSocial services include:

OpenSocial APIs overview

Gadgets Core Utilities handling gadget preferences, IO, JSON

Gadgets Feature-Specific Utilities for working with flash, window management, tabs, rpc, MiniMessage

Additional Gadgets services include:

Core Services - People & Friends /** * Request for friend info when the page loads. */ function getData() { var req = opensocial.newDataRequest(); req.add(req.newFetchPersonRequest(VIEWER), 'viewer' ); req.add(req.newFetchPeopleRequest(VIEWER_FRIENDS), 'viewerFriends' ); req.send( onLoadFriends ); }; Getting info on you and your friends :

Core Services - People /** * Callback function for returned friend data. */ function onLoadFriends (response) { var viewer = response.get( 'viewer' ).getData(); var html = 'Friends of ' + viewer.getDisplayName() + ‘:<br><ul>’; var viewerFriends = response.get( 'viewerFriends' ).getData(); viewerFriends.each(function(person) { html += '<li>' + person.getDisplayName() + '</li>';}); html += '</ul>'; document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = html; }; Getting info on you and your friends : Generated output:

Core Services - Activities /** * Posting a simple text activity */ function postActivity(text) { var params = {}; params[opensocial.Activity.Field.TITLE] = text; var activity = opensocial.newActivity(params); opensocial.requestCreateActivity(activity, opensocial.CreateActivityPriority.HIGH, callback ); } postActivity("This is a sample activity, created at " + new Date().toString()); Posting an Activity : Activities in Orkut:

Core Services - Persistence /** * Storing data */ function populateMyAppData() { var req = opensocial.newDataRequest(); var data1 = Math.random() * 5; var data2 = Math.random() * 100; req.add(req.newUpdatePersonAppDataRequest("VIEWER", "AppField1", data1)); req.add(req.newUpdatePersonAppDataRequest("VIEWER", "AppField2", data2)); req.send(requestMyData); }; Requesting to persist data:

Core Services - Persistence /** * Fetching data */ function requestMyData() { var req = opensocial.newDataRequest(); var fields = ["AppField1", "AppField2"]; req.add(req.newFetchPersonRequest( opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER), "viewer"); req.add(req.newFetchPersonAppDataRequest("VIEWER", fields), "viewer_data"); req.send(handleReturnedData); } Requesting to persist data:

Core Services - Persistence /** * Displaying persisted data */ function handleReturnedData(data) { var mydata = data.get("viewer_data"); var viewer = data.get("viewer"); me = viewer.getData(); // me is global var var data = mydata[me.getId()]; htmlout += "AppField1: " + data["AppField1"] + "<br/>"; htmlout += "AppField2: " + data["AppField2"] + "<br/>"; var div = document.getElementById('content_div'); div.innerHTML = htmlout; } Displaying the fetched ( persisted ) data: Generated output:

Demonstration

Building some simple OpenSocial apps in Orkut

Displaying your friends

Reviewing other OpenSocial applications

Agenda

JavaScript APIs

REST APIs

OpenSocial’s Container - Shindig

What is Shindig?

“ OpenSource software that allows you to serve OpenSocial applications”

Is currently an Apache Software Incubator project

Heavy partner involvement: Ning championed

Open source reference implementation of OpenSocial & Gadgets technologies

It’s Goal:

“ To serve as an easy to use OpenSocial “container in a box”

Shindig Components Shindig Gadget Server Gadget Container JavaScript OpenSocial Container JavaScript Gadget Rendering Servlet

Gadget Server

Renders gadget XML (i.e. from gmodules.com)

Gadget Container JavaScript

OpenSocial Container JavaScript

JavaScript environment for people, activities, persistence

OpenSocial Gateway Server

WIP!

Shindig in Action Running the application Request is made from Client Data is returned and rendered Application Installation Gadget XML is loaded and cached on OpenSocial Container Gadget XML Source

Demonstration