Dimensions
181 x 227 x 17mm
More and more companies are building applications that integrate with Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking technologies. Increasingly, they want to go beyond single-network solutions to build environments that work across social networks, reaching their customers wherever they are, wherever they prefer to be reached. This book will show them how. In The Developer's Guide to Social Programming, Mark Hawker shows how to efficiently integrate their web sites with multiple social media environments at the same time. Unlike competitive books that focus on a single social media platform, this book covers three leading technologies: Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API. The book's extensive coverage of the Twitter API will make it especially valuable to the fast-growing base of Twitter developers, who have had few resources to rely on in building Twitterintegrated solutions. Hawker offers practical solutions and code for addressing a wide range of common challenges in social programming, from site user registration to blog commenting. All code examples are provided on a companion web site, which also presents how-to videos and a community discussion area.
* The first book that shows how to build integrated social programming solutions that work seamlessly across all leading platforms.
* Includes extensive practical, up-to-the-minute coverage of the Twitter API that thousands of developers have been searching for.
* Presents extensive examples demonstrating how to solve problems ranging from site user registration to blog commenting.
