Developing with Google+

• Author(s): Jennifer Murphy,
• Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
• Pages: 91
• ISBN_10: 1449312268
  ISBN_13: 9781449312268
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Computers / Interactive & Multimedia , Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General , Computers / Internet / Social Media , Computers / Internet / Web Programming , Computers / Social Aspects ,

Description:...

Would you like to integrate Google+ with an existing website, or build your own social application on the platform? Developing with Google+ takes you on a tour of the Google+ APIs, with lots of concrete examples and hands-on projects. You'll learn how to take advantage of Google+ social plug-ins, communicate programmatically with Google+ over REST APIs, and author real-time Hangout Apps.

Over the course of this book, you'll follow the progress of a fictional company, Baking Disasters, as it incorporates all the features of the Google+ platform.

• Make the most of social widgets such as the +1 button, Badge, and the Share button
• Use performance tuning techniques to speed up social plugins on your site
• Create your own plugins by accessing public data APIs with RESTful web services
• Transform an blog into a social web application through server-side processing
• Use OAuth to authenticate users and authorize your access to their private data
• Extend Google+ Hangouts programmatically and create your own application