Assemble the Social Web with zembly
Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson, Todd Fast, Chris J. Webster · International Linear Collider · 2008
Use zembly to Create Social Web Applications for: Facebook, Flickr, iPhone, and More!With zembly you can create mashups and web applications drawing on content from virtually any web site, API call, or data stream. Whats more, zembly makes it as easy to deploy and scale next-generation web applications as it is to build them. Suddenly, the web itself becomes programmable: the browser becomes your development environment, and you can leverage building blocks created by thousands of developers, worldwide. With extensive contributions from zemblys creators, Assemble the Social Web with zembly is the first and only official guide to zembly. This book brings together all the knowledge and code youll need to build applications for todays leading Web 2.0 platforms: Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, iPhone, and more. The authors begin with a high-level tour of zembly that clearly explains its goals, capabilities, core concepts, and long-term direction. Youll quickly walk through constructing your first zembly application; then, learn step-by-step how to use zembly with each of todays most powerful and popular social web platforms. Coverage includesUnderstanding the new paradigm of social programmingBuilding Flickr widgets to generate and display web-based slide showsCreating widgets that draw upon Zillows enormous real estate databaseDeveloping mashups that incorporate maps and geographical data from Google Maps Integrating with Facebook: from the absolute basics through advanced techniques utilizing the Facebook Data Store ModelUsing Dapper Dapps to create feeds that can capture content from virtually any web siteUsing zembly to simplify and accelerate iPhone web app development Whether youre a long-time web professional or a casual developer with a specialized problem to solve, zembly is the tool youve been waiting for. One book brings together everything you need to make the most of it: Assemble the Social Web with zembly.