Preface
The World Wide Web is in constant flux and, since the introduction of utilities such as Facebook and Twitter, has only recently had social interaction at its core. Currently, Facebook and Twitter have more than 400 million active users, and the Facebook Platform alone is integrated with more than 250,000 websites and applications, engaging over 100 million Facebook users each month. These numbers continue to increase each day. Another dominant force is Google, who introduced their Friend Connect, which enables users to add social functionality to any of their websites. All three companies continue to roll out massive changes to their development platform, rendering previous best practices obsolete.
However, just knowing the technical ...
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