ApacheCon US 2009 Session
Empowering the social web with Apache Shindig
The social web is already reality! It makes applications available to more users, by providing common APIs that can be used in many different contexts. OpenSocial is an API that can be used by developers to create applications using standard JavaScript and HTML. These applications run on social websites that have implemented the OpenSocial APIs. Known as OpenSocial containers, these websites allow developers to access their social information. In return, they receive a large suite of applications for their users. Apache Shindig is a brand new incubator podling implementing the OpenSocial APIs. This talk describes Shindig in depth, and shows how it can be embedded into a larger web application to enable the web-app to host OpenSocial apps.
