- The document discusses OpenSocial, an open-source platform that allows developers to build social applications and widgets that can run across different social networking platforms. - OpenSocial aims to address the problem of applications being locked into single social networks by providing a common way for applications to integrate social features and data across sites. - The document outlines the history and development of OpenSocial, how it works, and provides examples of how companies like Google, Atlassian, and others are using it to build social features into their products and platforms.

1. Getting Social with OpenSocial Compuware ITX September 23, 2009 Timothy Fisher Covisint

2. Who Am I? Timothy Fisher Systems Architect Compuware Covisint [email_address] twitter.com/tfisher linkedin.com/in/timothyfisher blog.timothyfisher.com Books I’ve Written: ? COMING

5. A Response to Facebook’s Rise

6. Why??? Why was Google interested in competing with Facebook???

7. The World is Social Social Apps are everywhere!!! New opportunity to be everywhere!!!

8. Too Many Platforms

9. Write Once, Deploy Everywhere

12. OpenSocial Containers

13. OpenSocial Reach

14. OpenSocial Apps

17. Preview/About View

18. Home View

19. Profile view

20. Canvas View

24. OpenSocial Data

26. Gadget Specification Gadget contained in an XML file. Includes: JavaScript CSS XHTML Metadata

27. Deploying an OpenSocial Gadget DEMO: Deploy an OpenSocial Gadget to a Ning Community

31. OpenSocial DevApp Many containers provide an OpenSocial Dev App which can be used to test gadget code against a particular container. http://osda.appspot.com DEMO - Orkut

32. Gadget Editor Very simple editor for creating simple OpenSocial gadgets or viewing source code of existing gadgets. http://gadgeteditor.appspot.com DEMO

33. OpenSocial Development Environment Eclipse plug-in available to simplify the development of OpenSocial gadgets. DEMO

36. Apache Shindig Provides components to get you started with implementing your own OpenSocial container. Most existing containers started with Shindig. Includes client and server-side components. Java and PHP versions.

37. Shindig Implementation

41. Atlassian OpenSocial

42. Atlassian OpenSocial

43. OpenSocial for Mobile

47. So What??? You may be thinking… this is all very interesting, and maybe even cool technology... But I don’t work for Google, Facebook, MySpace or any other social network… Why interest does this have for me as a Compuware employee???