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.
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<li>Learn how to build applications on top of social containers, and leverage existing user data</li>
<li>Map user relationships with a social graph, and extend social links between users</li>
<li>Customize your application with user profile information and encourage growth through friendships</li>
<li>Build a scalable social application container with OpenSocial and Shindig</li>
<li>Dive into advanced OpenSocial topics such as templating and data pipelining methods</li>
<li>Protect your container and its users against malicious code</li>
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Programming Social Applications: Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks

Computers & Technology

LeBlanc, Jonathan

Web Development & Design

Yahoo Press

Developers, designers, engineers, and creators can no longer afford to pass responsibility for identity and data security onto others. Web developers who don’t understand how to obscure data in transmission, for instance, can open security flaws on a site without realizing it. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how and why everyone working on a system needs to ensure that users and data are protected.
Authors Jonathan LeBlanc and Tim Messerschmidt provide a deep dive into the concepts, technology, and programming methodologies necessary to build a secure interface for data and identity—without compromising usability. You’ll learn how to plug holes in existing systems, protect against viable attack vectors, and work in environments that sometimes are naturally insecure.
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<li>Understand the state of web and application security today</li>
<li>Design security password encryption, and combat password attack vectors</li>
<li>Create digital fingerprints to identify users through browser, device, and paired device detection</li>
<li>Build secure data transmission systems through OAuth and OpenID Connect</li>
<li>Use alternate methods of identification for a second factor of authentication</li>
<li>Harden your web applications against attack</li>
<li>Create a secure data transmission system using SSL/TLS, and synchronous and asynchronous cryptography</li>
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Identity and Data Security for Web Development: Best Practices

Messerschmidt, Tim

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

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