How to make your application social in order to use powerful side of social networks

1. MAKE YOUR APPLICATION
SOCIAL
Hüseyin BABAL
Software Developer @Sony
Sep 2013

2. Non-social Apps
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Simple web app
Boring register forms
Lost in the internet world
How can be popular?

3. Non-social Apps

4. Non-social Apps

5. Non-social Apps
● How can user know about your app?
● Anyone register to your app?
● Different username/pass for each app?

6. Social Network Power
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Facebook 665 million user
Instagram 45 million photo per day
Linkedin 2 user registers per second
Youtube 100 hours video per minute

7. Social Network Power
● You can also use social network power
● How? By using social network users

8. Integration Methods
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Social
Social
Social
Social
network
network
network
network
Sign-in
Share
built-in plugins
advanced integration

9. Oauth

10. Social network Sign-in
Example app:
SocialAuth
SocialAuth Wordpress Plugin

11. Social network share
Share your content on popular networks.
Popular tool AddThis

12. Social network built-in plugins

13. Social network built-in plugins
Facebook
● Like Button
● Send Button
● Follow Button
Twitter
● Follow Button
● Tweet Button
● Embedded Timeline

14. Social network advanced
integration
● Imagine a site that is fully integrated
with Twitter
LongTweet

15. Different concept
● What if user do not want to grant
permission for social integration?
● Email Login!!!
● User enters email addres and click signin

16. Email login workflow
1. User enters email address
2. An email sent entered email address with
preconstructed url
3. User clicks url and login
Example here

17. Useful things
For oauth implementation example with
node.js you can have a look at here
For online oauth test apigee is the best

18. Any Questions?