Peeyush Gulati, peeyushgulati [at] gmail {dot} com Sharmishtha Gupta sharmishtha{dot}gupta [at] gmail{dot}com

Introduction!
How to use?
Why Open Social?

Open social tries to make a common compliant of all of the social network.
A common API for social applications across multiple websites. If you have Open Social compliance, you can be connected commonly through all the social

Open social client API
Javascript – Standard web dev. technologies
HTML + Javascript
And can be integrated with 3rd party server.

REST services
- Based on Atom publishing protocol
- AtomPub and JSON

The core OpenSocial services include -
People and friends – Access the information programmatically.
Activities – See what your friends are up to and what they are doing, and share what you are doing.
Persistence – Provide state without a server, and share data with your friends.

Integration of OpenSocial with an existing application.
Social App | Shindig
Interaction of the gadget with the OpenSocial container and then the social app + Shindig connecting to a common database.

Use of OpenSocial -
Social network sites – Profiles and Homepages
You can create your own personal dashboards like in iGoogle etc. Your profile can be enhanced with this.
Sites based around a Social Object
Can be used in any website.

Creating an application -
Gadgets -
1. I/O Gadgets
2. OpenSocial Gadgets

You can go to http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/spec.html to check out more on creating your own gadget.
Gadget a XML file – A gadget and its XML are synonymous. The gadget XML contains all information needed to identify and render a web application.

Shows an example of a gadget created with Shindig. Talk on adding a poll gadget with iFrame.
Demo on how to integrate things like Friends list to a personal homepage like Orkut.

Peeyush Gulati and Sharmishtha Gupta were from Satyam’s PHP team.

Some social networks supporting OpenSocial -
Hi5, Orkut, Myspace, iGoogle, Netlog, Ning, Mixi, Oracle, Six apart, Bebo, Viadeo, AOL, Friendster