This is a presentation on OpenSocial in the Enterprise given at Devfest 2009 in Buenos Aires Argentina on Nov 17, 2009 by Google Developer Advocate, Chris Schalk, eXo Platform CEO Benjamin Mestrallet, and Globant's Bruno Rovagnati

2. OpenSocial in the Enterprise
Chris Schalk
Benjamin Mestrallet
Bruno Rovagnati
Nov. 17th, 2009

3. Agenda
• Introduction
• A Brief history of OpenSocial
• OpenSocial Pioneer technologies
• IBM
• Atlassian
• SocialText
• Apache SocialSite
• eXo Platform
• Wrap up
• Q&A
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4. OpenSocial Background
• Launched in fall of 2007
• Initial target audience was traditional social
networking sites (SNS)
• Provides open source standards for building
social applications
• Has both evolved and grown rapidly in the past 2
years
o Started at version 0.6 and is now approaching 1.0

5. OpenSocial Background
• Global user population now exceeding 800
million
• Technology evolving past its social network site
roots
• In Sept. held our first ever “Enterprise
OpenSocial Meetup”
o Has resulted in a series of spec updates for 1.0 and
1.x
o Will soon be publishing an “Enterprise OpenSocial
Whitepaper”
o Plan to meet again in January

6. Some OpenSocial Enterprise Partners

7. IBM and OpenSocial
• IBM has been successfully innovating in the
area and browser-based component models
and social APIs for years, e.g. Lotus Mashup
Maker, Lotus Connections
• Working closely with the OpenSocial
community to ensure that the specifications
and the Apache Shindig RI can meet our
needs and complement iWidgets

8. IBM and OpenSocial
• Areas of improvement for OpenSocial:
o Gadget metadata and wiring
o Interoperability with iWidgets, OpenAjax and Dojo
o Specification modularity
o Extension Mechanism
o Better support for Groups
o Alignment with Activity Streams

9. Atlassian & OpenSocial

10. Development is social
• Developers are people who work in teams
• They collaborate around shared objects
• And generate lots of activity
source code
commits issues
build failures builds
comments Projects
tasks docs
wiki edits specs

11. Enterprise apps are silos

12. http://atlassian.com/opensocial

13. OpenSocial and Socialtext - Today
• Socialtext Dashboard
Launched Sept 2008
o Personalized,
customizable
dashboard based on
OpenSocial container
o Extend user
experience with
thousands of Google
Gadgets
o Easy for customers to
develop their own
widgets
o Next: intergadget
communications

14. Apache SocialSite
• Widgets and Web Services for adding social networking
features to your existing web sites
o Web services: OpenSocial API + extensions to manage the Social
Graph
o A complete end-to-end user interface for Social Networking in the form
of JavaScript widgets that can be embedded into any site (Java, Ruby,
PHP-based and more).
o A flexible Social Graph repository that can work in a wide variety of
social networking scenarios. With configurable profile properties and
relationship types.
o Comprehensive JavaScript and REST API access to the Social Graph:
OpenSocial plus conforming extensions.
o Scalability via support for running in distributed configuration, table
partitioning technologies, master and slave databases and distributed
caching.

15. Apache SocialSite
• Allows you and (optionally) your users to embed
OpenSocial Gadgets in your existing web applications
• Enables multiple web applications so share a common
social graph of users, groups, activities and more
• Open Source software, developed by Sun
• https://socialsite.dev.java.net/
• Now entering the Apache Incubator
• http://incubator.apache.org/projects/socialsite.html
• as a Committer and first one to deploy it in a
live site… A big running company, with 1.5M+ users.

18. Apache SocialSite Stats
Load testing servers
Three m1.small instances were use to generate the load.
Amazon EC2 Standard small definition:
1.7 GB memory
1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit)
160 GB instance storage (150 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
32-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
Running in JBOSS and ORACLE

21. What I see in Enterprise 2.0
• Communication
• Knowledge Management
• Find hidden Talent
• Reduce redundant internal email spam
• Sense the company mood

22. OpenSocial & eXo Platform
• eXo offers rich, intuitive collaborative software
that is used by some of Europe’s largest
companies and gov’t ministries.
• We just opened our first U.S. office.
• Created eXo Social based on OpenSocial that
integrates our application services into GateIn
(co-developed with Red Hat)

23. OpenSocial & eXo Platform
Demo: