Make Your Application Social

MAKE YOUR APPLICATION SOCIAL

Hüseyin BABALSoftware Developer @Sony

Sep 2013

● Simple web app● Boring register forms● Lost in the internet world● How can be popular?

Non-social Apps

Non-social Apps

Non-social Apps

● How can user know about your app?● Anyone register to your app?● Different username/pass for each app?

Non-social Apps

● Facebook 665 million user● Instagram 45 million photo per day● Linkedin 2 user registers per second● Youtube 100 hours video per minute

Social Network Power

● You can also use social network power● How? By using social network users

Social Network Power

● Social network Sign-in● Social network Share● Social network built-in plugins● Social network advanced integration

Integration Methods

Oauth

Example app:

SocialAuth

SocialAuth Wordpress Plugin

Social network Sign-in

Share your content on popular networks.

Popular tool AddThis

Social network share

Social network built-in plugins

Facebook● Like Button● Send Button● Follow ButtonTwitter● Follow Button● Tweet Button● Embedded Timeline

Social network built-in plugins

● Imagine a site that is fully integrated with Twitter

LongTweet

Social network advanced integration

● What if user do not want to grant permission for social integration?

● Email Login!!!● User enters email addres and click sign-

in

Different concept

1. User enters email address2. An email sent entered email address with

preconstructed url3. User clicks url and login

Example here

Email login workflow

For oauth implementation example with node.js you can have a look at here

For online oauth test apigee is the best

Useful things

Any Questions?