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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

Rules

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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