Since this book’s major focus is teaching the fundamentals of social application, container, and graph development using an open source stack, it is only prudent that I outline the technologies we will examine.
The major set of open source technologies we will explore in this book includes:
OpenSocial for exploring the social graph and application development
Shindig and Partuza as container implementations using OpenSocial
OAuth for secure application and user authorization
OpenID for user authentication, including the hybrid OpenID OAuth extension
Caja and ADsafe for securing frontend code
The Open Graph protocol to explore social web entities
Activity Streams as a foundation for delivering activity content
WebFinger as a means of discovering public user data using email addresses
OExchange as a means of sharing any URL with any other web service on the Web
PubSubHubbub as a means of syndicating user conversations from a root provider to multiple subscribers
The Salmon protocol for taking the foundation of PubSubHubbub and unifying conversations between publishers and subscribers
As we explore this open stack, we will compare the technologies with many of the current proprietary standards used in the industry today. This will give you a good overview of both the potential and the implications of using open source fundamentals.
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