OpenSocial Tutorial – Part 4: Listing Gifts You’ve Sent
Mar 2, 2009 API Tutorials
Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable):
list friends information
Use him and him just class autoloader this CD gives you just modify arguments to functions so just how do you do it also requested about a data request objects were going to specified in addition to updating the viewer s application data we also request information with your viewer friends and the personal information storage of computer in the look friends function are also going to do something similar to the literalist friends of your friends we also request the personal application storage of your going to make these two requests parallel each other so that we initialize the gadget or give a gift we can send the callback sensitive information than we modified our offload friends function so that in addition to specifying the run of your friends to pull out the gifted it which is the list of gifts to give again we create the list of friends as a selection menu and then once that has been inserted into the page recall the update gift list function which was little list of gifts we are given update gift list pulls information out of the data rate we have given it specified by the viewer ID in the key of gifts which is where information is stored within take this data converted back from injuries on string into a JavaScript object that we can use once we have this object which is the parent of a friend ID and a gift ID we can convert that into a string which specifies the front of your given the gift you and the gift we ve given them we can answer this list and the page as HTML finally make a small change to the gadget XML file so that we have somewhere to insert HTML is a new version of our gadget but now displays the list of gifts we ve given so I clicked on the gift of button it shows up in the list below for more information on what I ve showed you in more information on the social API please check out the tutorial at code.google.com for the open social section
Tags: friends, information, list
FotoFlexer talks about OpenSocial
Feb 15, 2009 API Tutorials
Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable):
photo photos friends
I now it but I think you thousand healthful than Outlook but I come down on cheating when I m has to be words and reflects her use on an online image editor and has very powerful and refined effects that allow you to manage your photos rings and work it and ensure them with your friends so I love it about why I said no social platform and why I m writing back in voice I like about.com sure am a foot of looks and went itself really well to to the social graph is people are sharing your photos very social thing to do is to take photos of parties with your friends and family and Western people naturally we have photos you ll swim at the supporting editor write with an orchid is a great way to bring the convenience of photo editing also bring the power of the social graph to your photos so we felt that was a nice match to talk about your experience programming in getting the data model and how I ll fit with anything with sharpening for French stilts with Adobe flex and so the actual editor and helpless patient is compiled into a nice little package that you had well provides a pretty clean API with JavaScript on call so he just skipped into the motor and longer nice to you that s pretty much how we ve been doing it I think that using flash has been especially convenient this case depends on your needs a very clean hook into the interface and not too much hassle work on Wikipedia where you see at but let s are within archive make wet wet with facts that are ready for no excellent output going to go into would think that perplexes him continue rolling were to continue adding armor question features more fun color affects more fun distortions and things of that nature we also want to see it take on new viral dimension so people be able to edit photos with her friends hope we tag them and be able to put them and their friends activity streams or send photo messages and things of that nature sort who excited to see some of that functionality develop an orchid site to take advantage of right we are sure of course so I m here regarding photo flexor on orchid and you can see there s an orchid Rapier a real senator with a number of other services most arduous as well such the cost of the minute here are the ultimate loaded from my or my workout and I can see my friends almost do this by clicking on this: so you re my friends if I click on them their photos will so here s a photo albums click on flex it in the Cisco load up the photo onto the flexor is take a second or so here are the photo we have a whole suite of basic cool stuff that you did you expect property doesn t think we also support layers so it s easy to loading multiple images and great fun compositions in a number of our great easy-to-use color affects so I m in his click once and I can turn this into artistic looking painting of a quick pop art and turn it into a handy Warhol-esque painting of the popular we also have some fun distortions so here s bold and you can see the drag her vehement live preview what to do this is a really popular tools I can make replica blue or alternatively have interest is the opposite of the reform and support taxicab captions to your photo on this by typing the text you want and we have on some advantages while these are things that you will find anywhere else but you can morph to reduce together a real senator with WebCams WebCam on your computer you can grab photos from anywhere they regard as a washoff on one of our favorite features called Smart resize and this is a fantastic feature to have a party for your photo with friends or family to somebody in the background image trouble for vacation anyway rid a person because they are by your crop the photo because then you run the composition is really used to select the photo and you see the remove is enabled that was paint over here with my brushes turning red and select the layer is at one remove that his click the go button you can see that the red areas getting smaller but the overall image is not changed and was finished to see that the composition is maintained is no distortion of the image that person is now magically go ergo services as before and this is after so 25 after three powerful effect on Italy on photo flexor and now it s coming orchid great way to play with your photos and showing the difference Firefox also offers live WebCam support so I click on the WebCam to your local window in curio traces you and we can apply some live affects your soul click on the old-school and real-time supply bowl 2 million effective more popular than usual into or sketch is like a pencil drawing but he concedes the applied video of the world facility they want a robot caption this photo if you could capture and then I can click keep will put right into the other is my image so I can continue playing with it I can apply color affects to a mystified important and was most fundamental of this I can save backout orchid and I can share with my friends through a fun way to use your WebCam to fun for me on her chest strap hanging off a letter sent out gadgets are part of a full unlike zoo are really excited to be part of our fit and have a lot of fun with a lot developing gadgets so we encourage with other developers to try to think of the thing he
LinkedIn talks about OpenSocial
Jan 18, 2009 API Tutorials
Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable):
conference friends people
They will will deny something that we are sure absolutely semi-zealot in our product manager at Lincoln as most folks know these days linked in is a professional network unlike some social networks out there we focus on your professional relationships and aim to help you get your professional tasks that whether it s advancing your career finding sales leads finding opportunities to consult for other companies think about nature and we re very excited to be here and are excited to work on the open social API because he really gives us the opportunity to harness the creativity of developers across the web to build more professional tools for users of what I told you so were primarily because we want access to as many developers as possible all contributing their ideas and all creating great tools for members to use we could have built their own API and then only developers that were really passionate about a link that would build anything for it this way were harnessing the creativity of the entire web and I m leaving what is generally quite easy it s pretty straightforward pretty straightforward hyping we d certainly have Lincoln specific extensions that we d like to see out but it s pretty straightforward and pretty standard and makes a lot of sense to well so we re really focused on not only just finding you your friends are your connections as we call them the link then out but also recommending people that are connected through two or more people I met the unique feature of Lincoln where not only can we help you sort of Taiwan can use your existing relationships but we can really help you build new ones by finding friends of friends or friends of friends of friends that can help you achieve your tasks so I m what you might think in future I might absolutely soar deftly hoping to has many interesting features and tools aside as we can for the past few years we ve been really focused on growing our user base creating a very powerful network and our beginning to focus on how we extract the maximum value that I would give our users the tools they need to really get the job done and I m what they want to do and so that s were we hoping the social API comes in because he gives us the opportunity to harness other developers that could build tools for us and our members can enjoy you might like to are not think nothing of particular devices look at it if you don t know what did you tell him sure absolutely so we ve built a little app that s essentially a conference calendar for our members most professionals out there constantly thinking about what conferences should I go to two against my career to meet interesting people to strike interesting deals and of course there services out there that will give you an idea what conferences are coming up and many are well known but there s nothing out there that s giving you an idea of this conference is coming up and hear the people among your network among your connections that are going there so that s basically what we ve built we built the conference calendar that takes existing conference information out there and overlays the social information on top of it to tell you not only what conferences are coming up but the fact that this particular conference has 50 of your connections going and maybe you should come to because he s very popular among your network your sure absolutely Silvey the application is ready here it s a little calendar built into the Lincoln homepage agency that has the details on various conference is coming up these are conferences in October by some of the dates are coded in these colors corresponding to how many of your connections or how many of your friends actually attending the conference C. can see that kind of the red in the big date the more people in your network are actually attending the conference and us the more interesting we think this conference will be for you seeking an idea of what conferences are popular among among your network and if you find one that s interesting for example here s a Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin which apparently 60 people in my network are going to they get more details on it including the conference is what s about the schedule and through some of Lincoln extensions to the open social API you can also get suggestions of people you should meet at the conference not only people that you know are also people that are friends of your friends that might be interesting for you to meet because they re in the same industry or are highly recommended or things of that nature what s more you can even find friends in the area while you re going to this conference are Berlin may be one a refresher connection to these folks do and of course has, for most linking features if you so find someone you re really interested in you can contact them send a little message to say hey I m also here for this conference lets get together let s talk shop
Tags: conference, friends, people
Shelfari talks about OpenSocial
Jan 16, 2009 API Tutorials
Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable):
social really friends
Are you buying him some compliment I accompany s Josh hug from the CEO of Safari and Sunderland when we don t lead engineer special for you and I. we started Safari about a year ago we launched our website and were really excited about its potential and we re doing is a social media site people love to read books so a lot of social networks would focus on cheerleader social connections as they relate to your friends and communicate with your friends were able to do is allow you to print virtual bookshelf with your books on a virtual bookshelf on the Internet and then share that with your friends and talk a little about why I didn t seem to work with another social so we re really super excited about taking the Safari experience and moving it wherever of our users are at so we don t we ll want to limit the user experience to just a single website and we want to be able to lower users to take the books and their bookshelves and put them on whatever expressive a half so we currently have a Facebook application we have a really cool blog widget and have a MySpace widget meet with one of the strategies that we really had to make certain effort for is to allow people to take the books and the social stresses that are associated with without wherever they want to go so soon as we really found out that Google is going to creating a social platform we re super excited we were really ready to jump on 100% because we know that it s very important for us to take the book experience and put it put it within the world s worst users communicate I ll let what I open social and such are you leveraging for your application by Alec have them answer the technical details of one of things I m most excited about is the potential of open social even beyond the initial applications will show you a little bit later because we won t allow Safari to go wherever users are at the idea that we have all the layer of social information that we can access from anywhere an Internet potential to be something we re super excited about to let Kevin go into a little more detail about the APIs that were using perfect if there is such that recuperative installer growing pains of prayers at a rapid application environment for sure but am little dog are going to have you on go beyond a particular container into multiple containers of consumer Google s going to start important moving beyond it s really me so so so there s a reason that Google has a lot of effort into… is attached and no realistic image of your social networks and Palm verse one was exciting Mozilla that the JavaScript environments of the really client-side driven or you can do a lot of things really quickly and it s increasingly seamless application to a certain appeal less like browsing through a website and more of interacting with my data how I want them wearing one cell assay and I Safari.com 40 started making aptly everything I need to find a way with the psychology have to start from scratch almost any environment so that we are back in data structures are distractions and that s all we reused very much on terms of the front and we ve definitely been able to reuse some code at the same time we want to create it in environments that are specific to the container and so with this potential for.com there is some amount of reuse to public network that words really is starting out it s really trying to be a client-side library rationalism is very similar to her widget extensions and how do you take your books are going to hit solid JavaScript and so there s been a some instructions that we been able to do their it s the orchestras has definitely been on a new experience for us in terms of the front and client yet I look at that and say the utilizing the front end though in numerous places for her work in LA I will likely it ll hope will focus on care which areas are waiting to cannot help shelf I I really just would love to see them continue executing at a rapid pace toward the goal is a think as soon as we get to the end goal where you have a social API truly a social platform for the Internet the sooner we be able to enable some good user scenarios that we have in our heads right now but we can t really build until we get the API supports were okay about what lessons are an excellent fortify what she expenses there is no the biggest thing is he s been able to track your server social information around about your books wherever you re on up so whether I m in Facebook with her work@whetherchildren.com be able to have a common layer that tracks my books and tracts my social differences relating to read what laziness you cheated of a graphical representation of myself as any you can see my book reviews didn t see my ratings on this book and will jump into some of the other migrants and eventually those but we re also looking at ways of how to elaborate more social permissions with some really exciting plans that we have for the consumer launch of aura to the layer social permissions for me I m slicing a book and all of a sudden I can see my friends with this book and I can see their opinions and how he levers and make it very accessible to the user and to Amy in this case much over in locating these friends so you concede I know Amy has friends here in with the soil of additional information that goes beyond just a friend countenance the books or other of them interesting bits of social information and in its relationship to show for later we can jump over and we can see the updates around Amy s network and along religious updates in the orchid cents worth of goods around your friends were smothered the stream but it s perhaps updates around him books on monitoring or what might my relating these friends are doing an Orthodox home and so on we can relate to display a lot of additional value add content there is longer just looking at your friends as a means of connection but we can look at on books as a means of connecting with others of course we don t necessarily force people into a shofar.com experience and so our interest as they enable people to just user guide to without any real knowledge of him suffered a common mechanisms all the gadget and build a bookshelf to do that is really quick to show you where searching I was a backend head against our database and a tablet myself and all removable commercials as well and it is it s JavaScript for quick mimics a backend call a mega had refresh and showing a bookshelf and I removed the short history of everything and add a second book so that I removed the book the shortage of everything I decided I believe the history of love so it s this is nice that we can spin this data and of course we can jump into a minute and show you how the stands across the environments so again this is the first-person view of Amy and while we can also do from here our friends know we can click through and I can see a third person view of Dr. Kevin shelf and a kids committee Josh is so shelf and his interactions with his buttocks or his friends and what his friends are doing us a further comment will be obvious that she is receiving an week of course Taylor that so that it s specific perhaps the books are registered or maybe friends we have in common but it s really extracting a social information and displaying it to I will add that I Safari our social really excited about were thrown really excited about what we been able to do in a very short pre-time thus far working with the APIs and we are excited to continue with Google to make us in the
