Announcing a New OpenSocial and Emerging Social Technology Book

I'm happy to announce that, as of yesterday, Programming Social Applications is officially out in print. I normally wouldn't post on the OpenSocial blog about my own book but the content is specifically designed for this community, so it's a good fit. Within the book I cover topics on:

• Building social applications and containers using Shindig and OpenSocial.
• The vast array of features and functionality within the OpenSocial specification.
• Front-end code security tools like Caja and ADsafe.
• Authentication systems with OpenID
• Authorization systems with OAuth 1.0a and 2.0
• Emerging social technologies like Activity Streams, Open Graph Protocol, PubSubHubbub, Salmon and others.

I will be conducting a webcast through O'Reilly on October 4th, 2011 at 1pm PDT to talk with everyone about the technology within the book and explore some of the interesting emerging technologies that are upcoming. More details to come shortly.

You can purchase the book here or get a free sample here. For those of you that pick up the book, remember that Chapter 12 (OpenID / OAuth hybrid extension), Appendix I (Environment Setup) and Appendix II (Terms) are offered as an online only download from O'Reilly since the book was getting a little large and we didn't want to simply delete content.

Please send feedback and tell me what you think - I'd love to hear from the community!

Jonathan LeBlanc (@jcleblanc)
Jonathan LeBlanc is a principal developer evangelist with X.commerce. Jonathan has been a member of the OpenSocial community for over three years and is the author of O'Reilly's "Programming Social Applications".