OpenSocial drives apps for the Consumerprise Era!

OpenSocial rocks! Plain and simple. On Wednesday, Jive Software hosted an event where we showed off the Jive Apps Market. Thirteen of our app partners were present to demonstrate their killer apps (AppFusions, Appirio, Box, Crowd Factory, Gliffy, Lingotek, RoundPegg, Rypple, SalesCrunch, SolutionSet, SurveyGizmo, ThreeWill, yaM Labs). You can learn more about it in different blogs like Forbes and InformationWeek Brainyard, the Twitter stream, and on the Jive Developer Community.

This is the world's first social enterprise apps market. And it's based on OpenSocial. Each application is an OpenSocial gadget that gets rendered inside a user's Jive Apps dashboard.

Why is OpenSocial such a great fit for this? First of all, it gives us an open, industry standard application model that our partners can use to deliver SaaS based capability that extends and compliments the underlying Jive Platform.

OpenSocial also provides access to the enterprise social graph. You can use the programming model to access the members of your company that you are connected with as well as the member of your groups. 

And let's not forget the activity stream! Inside of Jive, OpenSocial applications can post activities into the stream, which enables them to spread virally across the enterprise.  

Would we have been able to build and deliver the Jive Apps Market as quickly as we did without OpenSocial? No way. By leveraging the OpenSocial, and building on top of Apache Shindig, we were able to leverage the power of the community, appeal to a broad base of fantastic application developers working at innovative companies, and provide enterprises with the security of working with an industry leading open, standard technology.


Posted by Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation & Developer Evangelist, Jive Apps

New OpenSocial Community Groups on Facebook

Hello Everyone,

This will be a quick update for the OpenSocial community. I wanted to let everyone know that we have two new upcoming avenues for people to reach out to us on Facebook. This will allow us to build more communication channels for those wishing to talk with others who are working with or interested in OpenSocial, or the many open source technologies that it is integrated with.

So, with that said, here are the two new channels on Facebook for to take a look at - a page and a group:

• Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/206139742771249
• Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenSocial/104087289690470

I will be adding and filling in the content on these pages in the coming days so that they are complete. Please feel free to use these channels to engaged with others in 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".

Do you work on the implementation of a container or develop applications within existing OpenSocial containers? If so, we’d love to interview you in a new blog post series that will allow developers to showcase the new and innovative things that they are doing with OpenSocial.

We’re especially interested in hearing from the community about:

• The challenges you’ve experienced while working with the specification and how you overcame them.
• Are there any technologies or specifications that you’ve integrated with an OpenSocial container or application that you believe married well with the OpenSocial specification?
• How is OpenSocial being used within enterprise solutions?
• How is OpenSocial being used on mobile devices?
• Are there any technical implementations that you thought worked especially well? Code implementations to showcase these integrations are always welcome.
• Do you have any helpful tips, techniques or snippets that have been useful to you in the past?

Using these “OpenSocial in the wild” posts, we’re hoping to hear more voices from the community and give creators the spotlight. These are the people that are on the front lines, implementing, and hearing from them what works, what failed, and what customers took to as far as features will allow us all to better understand how this technology is being used.

If you would like to be heard, please e-mail me at nakedtechnologist at gmail dot com and tell me, in brief, what you’re doing with OpenSocial. I’ll ask you a series of questions from that initial overview and then feature you in our new “OpenSocial in the wild” blog posts.

Thank you.

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".

OpenSocial and SXSW Interactive 2012

On June 20th, SXSW Interactive announced that they have opened their panel picker for submissions to the 2012 SXSW Interactive festival.

With all of the community efforts going on around OpenSocial 2.0, this would be a perfect time to submit a panel or talk on the wonderful efforts going on for OpenSocial and we ask that, as a community, we get involved in spreading the word around the integrated technology that are revitalizing the landscape of social application and container development.

An official panel will be submitted to discuss the new standards and technologies that are being integrated within OpenSocial 2.0. This will cover much of the work done on the specification, the future of OpenSocial, our enterprise involvement and the technology backbone that the new specification is being built around.

We would also love to see other members of the community submit talks about some of their involvements with OpenSocial. For instance, we'd love to see submissions about some of the following, just to name a few:

• How OpenSocial foundations and techniques can be applied in a mobile strategy.
• How new authorization models like OAuth 2 are fostering adoption of open standards.
• How standardization of activities through Activity Streams are building a foundation for social sharing across platforms.
• How OpenSocial is driving the socialization and communication channels of enterprise platform solutions.

If you submit a panel or talk, please respond to this thread to let us know (with a link to that talk) and I will work on compiling a list of the "OpenSocial community talks" for a future blog post. This will allow us to all vote as a community and show each other some support.

You can submit your talks here.

I look forward to hearing from all of you.

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".