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Ringside Networks To Unveil Social App Server

Posted by kdawson on from the hi-bub-howdy-how-do-ya-do dept.

eWeekPete writes "Ringside Networks tomorrow will formally launch as a company and also launch what it calls the first open-source social application server that seamlessly integrates Facebook applications with any Web site. The Ringside Social Application Server includes a Social Application Engine that enables Web site developers to quickly build, customize, and deploy their own social applications as well as the included set of standard social applications such as user profiles, friends, groups, comments, ratings, favorites, and events. Ringside also delivers support for federated social graphs for integrating Ringside-based social graphs with other social networks, such as Facebook. In addition, the product features an extensible API and tag library to enable developers to extend Facebook's API and markup language, as well to as define their own application-specific APIs and tags to handle custom behavior and improve Web site integration." Matt Asay had an advance look at Ringside a few days back.

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  1. Amazing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It can also integrate buzzwords into story summaries with ease! Think of the synergy!

  2. Great. by rpdelaney · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I feed my addiction to the facebook virus without even logging in.

  3. Please, no pre-news by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's being released tomorrow, why not post the story tomorrow when the site will actually work? (Usually people complain about Slashdot being a day behind all the other news sites, so this is a new one for me.)

    Also, this is a Slashvertisement.

  4. eventually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    it's going to happen: we will have enough of Facebook, our addiction will dry up and we want to be faceless again.