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Spring Social: For the New Web of APIs

Topics
SpringOne 2GX 2011,
SpringOne,
OAuth,
Spring,
Conferences,
Authorization,
Dependency Injection,
SpringSource,
Java,
Identity Management,
Design Pattern,
Languages,
VMWare,
Social Networking,
Security,
Patterns,
Spring Social,
Object Oriented Design,
Design,
Companies,
Programming

Craig Walls discusses the need for adding social features to applications, how to secure such applications and how Spring Social can help.

News about Social Networking

Online Social Networks Face Litigation Risks

Topics
Google,
Social Networking,
Facebook,
Legal Matters,
Companies

Google, Facebook and other companies operating totally 21 Social Networking websites are facing criminal proceedings in an Indian Court, over objectionable content accessible through the websites. A High Court has warned that the sites can face a ban in India unless they screen content. Is the growing flux of regulations surrounding social media a risk for businesses investing in social?

Funf Is a Sensing and Data Processing Mobile Framework

Topics
Tools,
Android,
Social Networking,
Frameworks,
Mobile,
Agile,
Operating Systems

Funf is an open source framework for collecting and analyzing mobile data. It has been used by MIT to see how political opinions change during an election campaign, how users interact with each other, or how illnesses spread through population.

Gartner’s Predictions for the Next 5 Years

Topics
Operations,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Enterprise,
Mobile,
Social Networking,
Predictions,
Gartner

Gartner predicts a consumer social network investment bubble burst in 2013, and over half of top Global 1,000 companies will store client’s sensitive data in clouds by 2016.

Yammer Moving from Scala to Java

Topics
Scala,
JVM Languages,
Java,
Functional Programming,
Languages,
Programming,
Social Networking

Yammer is moving from Scala to Java, after finding in a year-long experiment that the benefits provided by writing in a terser language don't outweigh the benefits of the complexities in having to train new employees and debugging performance problems. The email also suggests a number of performance improvements that can be made by avoiding certain patterns.

Articles about Social Networking

LinkedIn Signal: A Case Study for Scala, JRuby and Voldemort

Topics
JRuby,
Scala,
Java,
JVM Languages,
Functional Programming,
Languages,
Voldemort,
Programming,
Search,
LinkedIn,
Social Networking

On September 29th LinkedIn Signal was announced, providing a social search application both for LinkedIn shares and tweets from LinkedIn-Twitter bounded accounts. This article aims to provide more insight into the motivation and technical challenges of combining Scala, JRuby and Voldemort, at such scale.

Bringing in Social Content to Custom Applications with Apache Shindig

Topics
Java,
Languages,
Programming,
Community,
OpenSocial,
Apache Shindig,
Social Networking

This article discusses how an OpenSocial implementation, Apache Shindig, can be used to alleviate some commonly-encountered issues with implementing OpenSocial gadgets. Topics covered include the OpenSocial standard, Shindig architecture, how Shindig can be used to bring social networking content to an application, and usage of Shindig for OpenSocial enablement of the Gypsii social network.

Presentations about Social Networking

Evolution of Code Design at Facebook

Topics
QCon London 2011,
QCon,
Architecture,
Programming,
Conferences,
PHP,
Social Networking,
Facebook

Nick Schrock presents how Facebook’s code evolved over time, explaining some new constructs – fbobjects, Preparables, Ents - introduced to address the complexities of a large social graph.

Scaling the Social Graph: Infrastructure at Facebook

Topics
QCon San Francisco 2010,
MySQL,
Relational Databases,
Stories & Case Studies,
QCon,
Architecture,
Social Networking,
Database,
Performance & Scalability,
Agile,
Conferences,
Facebook

Jason Sobel presents the evolution of Facebook’s infrastructure over time, from the original LAMP stack to the present multi-datacenter configuration, the challenges faced and plans for the future.

Securing the Social Web by Moving Beyond Client-Server Security

Topics
Ruby,
Java,
Dynamic Languages,
QCon San Francisco 2010,
Languages,
.NET,
QCon,
Architecture,
Programming,
Security,
Conferences,
Social Networking,
Web Applications

Tyler Close considers that the old client-server security model is no longer viable and a new security web model is needed, presenting tools and techniques to secure the social web apps of today.

Developing Social-Ready Web Applications

Topics
Spring,
Dependency Injection,
SpringSource,
Web Frameworks,
Java,
WOA,
VMWare,
Languages,
Design Pattern,
Programming,
Patterns,
Architecture,
Object Oriented Design,
Companies,
Social Networking,
SpringOne 2010,
Design

Craig Walls discusses social web applications, how to integrate them, how to provide social data in a RESTful and secure way, introducing Spring Social, a framework for developing social web apps.