Social Networking, Web

Building Enterprise Social Networks with Liferay Portal: OSCON 2009 - ...

By Brian Chan

Liferay Portal is a Java framework that provides blogs, document management, message boards, and wikis, with a social network flavor. We'll demo how to use Liferay Social API to wire collaborative social network sites for Cisco and Mini United, write an app that will automatically expose it to Facebook and iGoogle, and how to write language-agnostic apps in Java, Groovy, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

The Open, Social Web Workshop: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - ...

By Chris Messina, David Recordon, Joseph Smarr

As evidenced by Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign, we have clearly entered the age of the social web. This developer-oriented workshop will emphasize the use and application of free, open building blocks for enabling social networking features on your site or service, and provide illuminating insights from some of the key figures creating these technologies.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

W3C Hosts Workshop on Social Networking - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

Social Networking and Community 2.0 have both become critical parts of the web infrastructure, so it is perhaps not surprising that the W3C, keeper of all things web, is now weighing in on the topic. On January 15-16, 2009, the W3C will host the Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, Spain, where it will pull together vendors, project leaders, and social networking experts to explore the ramifications that social networking has for the web, and whether the W3C should establish a formal working group dealing with Social Networking related issues.

[Publish Date: January 13, 2009]

Facebook: The Missing Manual -- New from O'Reilly Media: Finally! A Missing ...

Sebastopol, CA--Facebook, the stratospherically popular social networking site, combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, and playful applications, to help people connect with their friends who work, study, and live around them. No longer...

[Publish Date: January 23, 2008]

Riding the Social Networking Wave to Democratize Book Distribution and ...

By Krishna Motukuri, Mike McGuinness

Author Storefronts, Widgets and Social Networking Apps, Oh My! "This panel discussion will feature Krishna Motukuri, SVP at Lulu.com,and weRead founder discussing how POD advances made self-publishing a viable alternative to the traditional publishing model – giving authors more control over their book's future.

[Publish Date: February 09, 2009]

Ghosts of Location Based Social Networking Past, Present and Future: Where ...

By Mat Honan, Nihal Mehta, Dennis Crowley, Martin May, Jeff Holden

An exploration of the evolution of location-based social networking and how location-based applications will impact the way everyday users interact with the friends and find nearby venues and events. Includes several founders of past and current location-based social networks, including Brightkite, Buzzd, Dodgeball and Moximity.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Graphing Social Patterns Conference Debuts on East Coast: Social Networks ...

Sebastopol, CA--Following its tremendous success in California the past year, the O'Reilly Graphing Social Patterns (GSP) conference debuts on the East coast this summer. GSP East occurs June 9 through 11 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Washington...

[Publish Date: March 27, 2008]

Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

By Emil Eifrem

A graph db stores data in a network structure rather than in relational tables. This model is well suited for many web use cases such as tagging, metadata annotations, social networks, wikis and other network-shaped or hierarchical data sets. This talk will introduce Neo4j: a high-performance, transactional open source graph db, which frequently outperforms RDBMSs with >1000x for such use cases.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Living on the Edge: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, ...

By Danny O'Brien

Why do we trust our most personal diary entries with only our closest friends -- and distant machines of a faceless social networking service? Why do you hand over to Amazon files and passwords that you wouldn't tell your own mother? EFF's Danny O'Brien explains why innovation still comes from the edge of our networks -- and how the next generation of free software will help.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]