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What is OpenSocial?

Eric Meeks (UCSF) Leslie Yuan (UCSF) OpenSocial Gadget Update from UCSF June 17, 2011 – Harvard Profiles User Group Meeting. What is OpenSocial?.

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What is OpenSocial?

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  1. Eric Meeks (UCSF)Leslie Yuan (UCSF)OpenSocial Gadget Update from UCSF June 17, 2011 – Harvard Profiles User Group Meeting

  2. What is OpenSocial? • OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based social network applications, developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks.

  3. UCSF Goals • Extend UCSF Profiles, building new features without touching core Profiles code • Create an OpenSocial standards-based library of shareable gadgets • Foster a community across institutions for building and sharing knowledge and gadgets • Harness existing communities and gadgets

  4. Where are we today? Make Profiles an OpenSocial Container Build a library of useful gadgets • Faculty Mentoring • Document Sharing via SlideShare.net • Live hyperlinks within a profile • Profile List Tool • Google full text search of profiles • Working on more gadgets (activity streams and more… )

  5. Quick Demo(see http://profiles.ucsf.edu)For Slideshare gadget, search for investigator Ida SimFor Mentoring gadget, search for investigator Jeanette Brown

  6. Technical Notes First requirement: extend the Profiles to be an OpenSocial enabled platform • Apache Shindig + the Profiles API Then develop gadgets – which are: • Lightweight & easily developed • Usually under 500 lines of code • E.g., Mentor Gadget Source Code = XML, HTML & JavaScript

  7. Where to now? An Open Community for Application Sharing UCSF Profiles Harvard Profiles LinkedIn iGoogle Stanford VIVO Application Library

  8. Thanks! • The Profiles Team • The Shindig Team • Andy Smith (IBM), Mark Weitzel (IBM) and the OpenSocial Foundation Contact: Eric.meeks@ucsf.edu Leslie.yuan@ucsf.edu

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