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Building on Social Application Platforms

A brief overview of the open source technologies available for building social applications on top of social containers such as YAP, iGoogle, Orkut, MySpace, etc.

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Building on Social Application Platforms

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  1. Social Application Platform Development Jonathan LeBlanc – Technology Evangelist Yahoo! Developer Network – Partner Integrations Twitter: @jcleblanc

  2. Valuation: $4 Billion (May 2010) Business Insider Sold for between $15 - $25 Million San Francisco Examiner 2

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  4. RockYou! User Database Hacked “In December 2009, an attacker breached the company's database of usernames and passwords of its 32 million users.” Techweet: http://www.techweet.com Zynga Threatens to Leave Facebook “Zynga was threatening to leave Facebook altogether in the wake of Facebook's requiring exclusive use of Facebook credits for monetization in applications.” TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com Spammers Running Wild In Latest MySpace Phishing Attack “…suggesting that the site has fallen prey to a security exploit that grants spammers access to accounts.” TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com 4

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  6. Avoiding Disaster with Open Source 1. Accessing the Social Graph 2. Authorizing Application 3. Authenticating Users 4. Securing Third Party Code 6

  7. Accessing the Social Graph 7

  8. Authorization and Authentication 8

  9. Front-End Security 9

  10. Thank you Read More Links •OpenSocial: http://www.opensocial.org/ • Shindig: http://shindig.apache.org/ • OAuth: http://oauth.net/ •OpenID: http://openid.net/ •Caja: http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ Yahoo! Container Links • Yahoo! Application Platform: http://developer.yahoo.com/yap 10

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