Programming Social Applications
Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: August 2011
Pages: 544
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An insightful but a long one

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The book is an in-depth and thorough study of current scenario of social applications and its programming. It covers a vast area of technologies and most of them being open source is an another highlight of this book. It has got an engaging narrative and is rich with long descriptions, insightful thoughts, case studies that provide great hindsights and ample amount of examples. Though its long narrative at times makes you feel tiresome and could have been a bit more crisp.

The book true to its tradition of animal series proves to be a good read as well as a good reference. It is less of DIY book and don't venture into it if you want to have some ready bake code that you can put for your project. The book is more like a "Read it all, get a taste of it, then figure out what you want" .
The high point of the book is it clearly distinguishes and explains between the various concepts and technologies prevailing in the field. It also tries to provide an insightful introduction to various concepts used and challenges faced in achieving the same. The downside of the book is its long narrative(Remember this an early release, hope the O'Reilly team will do a lot of cuts and polishing).

The book will be an awesome read for all full time or wannabe social application developers, while it can be a good reference book for anyone who wants to monetise his product through social applications. Social application users don't bother about this book at all unless you are interested in knowing how online interactions and connections are used by developers.

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