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Opensocial: an enabler for social applications on the web

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Building on the OpenSocial API suite, developers can create applications that are interoperable within the context of different social networks.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 1
January 2011
128 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1866739
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