Articles

• OpenSocial Tutorial - 9 Apr 2008
  Crawl, walk, run. In this tutorial you'll learn to write an OpenSocial application from scratch and add features until you have an app that lets users exchange gifts with their friends. Who wants a red pistachio?
• Social Design Best Practices - 1 Nov 2007
  Engage the user, foster communication, and build communities. Once you have some familiarity with the OpenSocial API, this article will help you design an application that will thrive.
• Requesting Data in OpenSocial - 18 Apr 2008
  Every great socially-aware application needs to be able to request and manipulate social data. This article explains and uses code samples to explore the different requests your application may make via the OpenSocial DataRequest object.
• The Persistence API - 4 Apr 2008
  Confused about storing and retrieving VIEWER, OWNER, VIEWER_FRIENDS and OWNER_FRIENDS data? Read this article to learn everything that you ever needed to know about using OpenSocial's Persistence API.
• Introduction to makeRequest - 22 Apr 2008
  Need to work with content outside the OpenSocial container? This article explains the gadgets.io.makeRequest function, which allows you to send data to and retrieve data from remote servers.
• Building an OpenSocial app with Google App Engine - 25 Apr 2008
  Need to add some server side logic or data storage to your OpenSocial app? Google App Engine provides a scalable solution for your back end—and you still don't need to set up and maintain your own servers.