Building Social Web Applications

Author : Gavin Bell
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449379414

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Building Social Web Applications by Gavin Bell Pdf

Building a web application that attracts and retains regular visitors is tricky enough, but creating a social application that encourages visitors to interact with one another requires careful planning. This book provides practical solutions to the tough questions you'll face when building an effective community site -- one that makes visitors feel like they've found a new home on the Web. If your company is ready to take part in the social web, this book will help you get started. Whether you're creating a new site from scratch or reworking an existing site, Building Social Web Applications helps you choose the tools appropriate for your audience so you can build an infrastructure that will promote interaction and help the community coalesce. You'll also learn about business models for various social web applications, with examples of member-driven, customer-service-driven, and contributor-driven sites. Determine who will be drawn to your site, why they'll stay, and who they'll interact with Create visual design that clearly communicates how your site works Build the software you need versus plugging in one-size-fits-all, off-the-shelf apps Manage the identities of your visitors and determine how to support their interaction Monitor demand from the community to guide your choice of new functions Plan the launch of your site and get the message out

Author : Jonathan LeBlanc
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449315276

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Programming Social Applications by Jonathan LeBlanc Pdf

Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You'll learn how to create third-party applications for existing sites, build engaging social graphs, and develop products to host your own socialized experience. Programming Social Apps focuses on the OpenSocial platform, along with Apache Shindig, OAuth, OpenID, and other tools, demonstrating how they work together to help you solve practical issues. Each chapter uncovers a new layer in the construction of highly viral social applications and platforms. Learn how to build applications on top of social containers, and leverage existing user data Map user relationships with a social graph, and extend social links between users Customize your application with user profile information and encourage growth through friendships Build a scalable social application container with OpenSocial and Shindig Dive into advanced OpenSocial topics such as templating and data pipelining methods Protect your container and its users against malicious code

Author : Joshua Porter
Publisher : Peachpit Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780132089531

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Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter Pdf

No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application. Inside, you’ll discover: • The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them • The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time • How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up • What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it • How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows • How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.

Author : Mark D. Hawker
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321680921

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Developer's Guide to Social Programming by Mark D. Hawker Pdf

In The Developer’s Guide to Social Programming, Mark Hawker shows developers how to build applications that integrate with the major social networking sites. Unlike competitive books that focus on a single social media platform, this book covers all three leading platforms: Facebook, OpenSocial, and Twitter. Hawker identifies the characteristics of superior, highly engaging social media applications, and shows how to use the Facebook platform, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API to create them. You’ll find practical solutions and code for addressing many common social programming challenges, from site registration to search, blog commenting to creating location-based applications. Hawker concludes by walking you through building a complete, integrated social application: one that works seamlessly across all leading platforms, and draws on powerful features from each. Coverage includes Working with the Twitter API, including the Search API, Lists API, and Retweets API Authenticating users with Twitter OAuth Mastering the Facebook API, FQL, and XFBML Utilizing the Facebook JavaScript Library for creating dynamic content, and animation Exploring the Google Friend Connect JavaScript API, and integrating with the OpenSocial API Using Facebook’s tools for sharing, social commenting, stream publishing, and live conversation Using the PHP OpenSocial Client Library with Google Friend Connect Creating, testing, and submitting Google Friend Connect gadgets

Author : Michael Hartl,Aurelius Prochazka
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132701860

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RailsSpace by Michael Hartl,Aurelius Prochazka Pdf

Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster. Inside, the authors walk you step by step from the creation of the site's virtually static front page, through user registration and authentication, and into a highly dynamic site, complete with user profiles, image upload, email, blogs, full-text and geographical search, and a friendship request system. In the process, you learn how Rails helps you control code complexity with the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, abstraction layers, automated testing, and code refactoring, allowing you to scale up to a large project even with a small number of developers. This essential introduction to Rails provides A tutorial approach that allows you to experience Rails as it is actually used A solid foundation for creating any login-based website in Rails Coverage of newer and more advanced Rails features, such as form generators, REST, and Ajax (including RJS) A thorough and integrated introduction to automated testing The book's companion website provides the application source code, a blog with follow-up articles, narrated screencasts, and a working version of the RailSpace social network.

Author : Wendy Chisholm,Matt May
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596518738

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Universal Design for Web Applications by Wendy Chisholm,Matt May Pdf

Describes how to use such standards-based technologies as XHTML, CSS, and Ajax to develop a variety of Web applications and devices.

Author : Joshua Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 032157298X

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Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter Pdf

Author : Dasgupta, Subhasish
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605669854

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Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Dasgupta, Subhasish Pdf

Uncovers the growing and expanding phenomenon of human behavior, social constructs, and communication in online environments.

Author : Jennifer Golbeck
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780124058569

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Analyzing the Social Web by Jennifer Golbeck Pdf

Analyzing the Social Web provides a framework for the analysis of public data currently available and being generated by social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. Access and analysis of this public data about people and their connections to one another allows for new applications of traditional social network analysis techniques that let us identify things like who are the most important or influential people in a network, how things will spread through the network, and the nature of peoples' relationships. Analyzing the Social Web introduces you to these techniques, shows you their application to many different types of social media, and discusses how social media can be used as a tool for interacting with the online public. Presents interactive social applications on the web, and the types of analysis that are currently conducted in the study of social media Covers the basics of network structures for beginners, including measuring methods for describing nodes, edges, and parts of the network Discusses the major categories of social media applications or phenomena and shows how the techniques presented can be applied to analyze and understand the underlying data Provides an introduction to information visualization, particularly network visualization techniques, and methods for using them to identify interesting features in a network, generate hypotheses for analysis, and recognize patterns of behavior Includes a supporting website with lecture slides, exercises, and downloadable social network data sets that can be used can be used to apply the techniques presented in the book

Author : Matthew Russell
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449388348

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Mining the Social Web by Matthew Russell Pdf

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they’re talking about, or where they’re located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more. You'll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to help you find what you've been looking for in the social haystack, as well as useful information you didn't know existed. Each standalone chapter introduces techniques for mining data in different areas of the social Web, including blogs and email. All you need to get started is a programming background and a willingness to learn basic Python tools. Get a straightforward synopsis of the social web landscape Use adaptable scripts on GitHub to harvest data from social network APIs such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn Learn how to employ easy-to-use Python tools to slice and dice the data you collect Explore social connections in microformats with the XHTML Friends Network Apply advanced mining techniques such as TF-IDF, cosine similarity, collocation analysis, document summarization, and clique detection Build interactive visualizations with web technologies based upon HTML5 and JavaScript toolkits "Let Matthew Russell serve as your guide to working with social data sets old (email, blogs) and new (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook). Mining the Social Web is a natural successor to Programming Collective Intelligence: a practical, hands-on approach to hacking on data from the social Web with Python." --Jeff Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist, Cloudera "A rich, compact, useful, practical introduction to a galaxy of tools, techniques, and theories for exploring structured and unstructured data." --Alex Martelli, Senior Staff Engineer, Google

Author : Murugesan, San
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605663852

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Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications by Murugesan, San Pdf

"This book provides a comprehensive reference source on next generation Web technologies and their applications"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Dominique Dom Guinard,Vlad M. Trifa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781638357094

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Building the Web of Things by Dominique Dom Guinard,Vlad M. Trifa Pdf

Summary A hands-on guide that will teach how to design and implement scalable, flexible, and open IoT solutions using web technologies. This book focuses on providing the right balance of theory, code samples, and practical examples to enable you to successfully connect all sorts of devices to the web and to expose their services and data over REST APIs. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Because the Internet of Things is still new, there is no universal application protocol. Fortunately, the IoT can take advantage of the web, where IoT protocols connect applications thanks to universal and open APIs. About the Book Building the Web of Things is a guide to using cutting-edge web technologies to build the IoT. This step-by-step book teaches you how to use web protocols to connect real-world devices to the web, including the Semantic and Social Webs. Along the way you'll gain vital concepts as you follow instructions for making Web of Things devices. By the end, you'll have the practical skills you need to implement your own web-connected products and services. What's Inside Introduction to IoT protocols and devices Connect electronic actuators and sensors (GPIO) to a Raspberry Pi Implement standard REST and Pub/Sub APIs with Node.js on embedded systems Learn about IoT protocols like MQTT and CoAP and integrate them to the Web of Things Use the Semantic Web (JSON-LD, RDFa, etc.) to discover and find Web Things Share Things via Social Networks to create the Social Web of Things Build a web-based smart home with HTTP and WebSocket Compose physical mashups with EVRYTHNG, Node-RED, and IFTTT About the Reader For both seasoned programmers and those with only basic programming skills. About the Authors Dominique Guinard and Vlad Trifa pioneered the Web of Things and cofounded EVRYTHNG, a large-scale IoT cloud powering billions of Web Things. Table of Contents PART 1 BASICS OF THE IOT AND THE WOT From the Internet of Things to the Web of Things Hello, World Wide Web of Things Node.js for the Web of Things Getting started with embedded systems Building networks of Things PART 2 BUILDING THE WOT Access: Web APIs for Things Implementing Web Things Find: Describe and discover Web Things Share: Securing and sharing Web Things

Author : Christian Crumlish,Erin Malone
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491919828

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Designing Social Interfaces by Christian Crumlish,Erin Malone Pdf

Presents a set of design principles, patterns, and best practices that can be used to create user interfaces for new social websites or to improve existing social sites, along with advice for common challenges faced when designing social interfaces.

Author : Neal Schaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118756683

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Maximize Your Social by Neal Schaffer Pdf

Create and maintain a successful social media strategy for your business Today, a large number of companies still don't have a strategic approach to social media. Others fail to calculate how effective they are at social media, one of the critical components of implementing any social media strategy. When companies start spending time and money on their social media efforts, they need to create an internal plan that everyone can understand. Maximize Your Social offers a clear vision of what businesses need to do to create—and execute upon—their social media for business road map. Explains the evolution of social media and the absolute necessity for creating a social media strategy Outlines preparation for, mechanics of, and maintenance of a successful social media strategy Author Neal Schaffer was named a Forbes Top 30 Social Media Power Influencer, is the creator of the AdAge Top 100 Global Marketing Blog, Windmill Networking, and a global social media speaker Maximize Your Social will guide you to mastery of social media marketing strategies, saving you from spending a chunk of your budget on a social media consultant. Follow Neal Schaffer's advice, and you'll be able to do it yourself—and do it right.

Author : Christian Crumlish,Erin Malone
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449391737

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Designing Social Interfaces by Christian Crumlish,Erin Malone Pdf

This book provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website.--[book cover].