Netlog Developer Day

Applications Games Credit Economy

OpenSocial

“ OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites” OpenSocial Introduction Introduction

OpenSocial What is OpenSocial What is OpenSocial Applications Netlog OpenSocial

OpenSocial What is OpenSocial? What is OpenSocial?
People
--> information about users and friends
Activities
-->posting and fetching updates of people (logs)
Persistence data
--> key-value data storage
The basics:

People
Access the data of users:
Owner
Viewer
Data available:
userid, nickname, first name, last name, display name, profile picture url, profile url, birthday, gender, interests, address, relationship, sexual orientation, tags, about
➔ no email addresses, no phone numbers!

OpenSocial Owner vs. Viewer Owner vs. Viewer Friends Application Owner Jane Doe Viewer Me Profile Page Jane Doe Friends

Activity
Applications can post activity items to the logs
Applications can send notifications
Body Title

Persistence data
Applications can store key/value pairs
Per user
No need for own storage
Only available for the application itself
For example: storing the app settings of a user, the last time the user accessed the app, ...

OpenSocial How can you access OpenSocial? How can you access OpenSocial?
Javascript API
Simple javascript function calls,
API access on the client side
Portable to Flash
RESTful API
Data requests and pushing through HTTP request
API access possible on both client and server side
Also portable to Flash

Applications

What we offer app developers Viral Systems Viral Systems an application should be fully integrated • no external login should be needed... • no external links no ads in “profile” view no spamming through activities/requests localised & translated • We can help you!
Application Directory

Integration on Netlog Views Views
Canvas view = application page
Profile view = when user installs app on his profile
Home view = homepage
-->Applications can switch between views Netlog provides 3 views

Canvas view

Profile view

Home view

Netlog OpenSocial Extensions

Extending OpenSocial Friend Picker Friend Picker
Having a lot of friends --> Hard to select a certain friend
Solution: autocompletion

Extending OpenSocial Music Music
Music allows application to access the music database of Netlog, using small players
Request a player by title/artist
Plays 30 seconds of the song
Customizable
Netlog Chart

Extending OpenSocial Album Album
Albums can contain any kind of media item
Pictures
Videos
Music files
On Netlog, we offer albums of pictures as an extension

What we offer app developers Viral Messaging Viral Messaging an application should be fully integrated • no external login should be needed... • no external links no ads in “profile” view no spamming through activities/requests localised & translated • We can help you!
Posting to the activity stream
Sending notifications
Request to share application among friends

What we expect from app developers What we expect from app developers
An application should be fully integrated
no external logins should be required
no external links
No advertisements in profile or home view
No spamming through activities/requests
Commercial applications “ Value-added” applications

What we offer app developers Own Administration Tool Own Administration Tool

What we offer app developers Own Administration Tool Own Administration Tool an application should be fully integrated • no external login should be needed... • no external links no ads in “profile” view no spamming through activities/requests localised & translated • We can help you!

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Credit Economy

Extending OpenSocial Credits for 3rd party developers Credits for 3rd party developers
Payment extension allows application to
charge users credits to install the app
charge credits for premium features
charge credits for items
...

Extending OpenSocial Payments Payments
Transparent for app developers: just request a certain amount
➔ We take care of the rest

Games Directory

Game Page

Develop for Netlog NOW!

Developing an application: concrete proceedings Sandbox Application page Quality assurance Launch Concept approval

Application Developer Sandbox

Games Developer Sandbox

Games Developer Sandbox http://en.netlog.com/go/developer/games

Questions?
Codelabs this afternoon!
developer site: http://en.netlog.com/go/developer
apps: http://en.netlog.com/go/developer/opensocial
sandbox: http://en.netlog.com/go/developer/opensocial/sandbox=1
games: http://en.netlog.com/go/developer/games
sandbox: http://en.netlog.com/go/developer/games/view=sandbox

Netlog Developer Day

by Folke Lemaitre on Apr 02, 2009

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