Integrate Social App Features Into Your Website Using OpenSocial

OpenSocial is useful for websites to start hosting social applications. Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting these apps on your website.
OpenSocial is not just about gadgets and widgets for your Website. With it, your website can be a container or can store persistent data and publish notices/alerts called activities.

The Benefits of Social Networking: Creating a Community for your Blog

There is a whole community out there who really cares about each and every word that is typed into WordPress, Blogger or Typepad. This community’s strength is built upon good, solid foundations that originate from good old-fashioned hard work.

Implement an Image Slideshow Using a jQuery Plugin

Image slideshows are a dime a dozen on the web.You see them used for advertisements, featured articles, product showcases, and plain old photo reels.Today, we’re going to quickly implement a slideshow using the jQuery plugin Cycle by Mike Alsup.Cycle is a great plugin with years of development behind it. We’re going to use the Lite version. It lacks some of the features of the full version (like different transitions), but it is super lightweight. While the full version is 49kb, the lite version weighs in at only 8kb.