Google Developers Blog: Building a cloud sharing service one Google technology at a time

Building a cloud sharing service one Google technology at a time

Monday, May 17, 2010

This post is part of the Who's @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who'll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. This guest post is written by Navin Kumar, founder and CTO of Socialwok, a business sharing and social collaboration service for Google Apps running on Google App Engine Java. Navin will be demoing Socialwok as part of the Developer Sandbox and will be speaking on Google Buzz.

Google App Engine JavaGoogle Web ToolkitGoogle Data APIsPubSubHububActivityStrea.msSocialwokAppEngine with Java language supportGoogle Web ToolkitHTML5 and MobileGoogle Docs and Google Calendar supportOpenID login using your Google Apps account/ on our URLs just like Google Apps. In fact, you can login in multiple Google Apps domains in the same browser with Socialwok. See our blog post for more info.

6) Rapid deployment using Google Apps Marketplace. Socialwok can now be added to any Google Apps domain by the domain administrator with one-click using the Google Apps Marketplace API. Once added to a domain, Socialwok will appear in the Google Apps control panel of the domain and can be launched from inside the Google Apps user interface. See here for screenshots of how Socialwok will look when added through the Google Apps Marketplace.

7) Pull in external feeds using PubSubHubbub. Socialwok uses PubSubHubbub to pull in external Atom and RSS from many different sources. We can even import your Google Buzz feeds into Socialwok. For more information, see our Social Media Suite tour.

8) ActivityStrea.ms in and out. Socialwok can not only bring in ActivityStrea.ms from outside sources like Facebook, Google Buzz, and many others, but also produces ActivityStrea.ms output through our API. This means that you can use Socialwok with any ActivityStrea.ms capable client, and export this easily to other external sites.

9) At the forefront of new Social Web standards. In addition to ActivityStrea.ms, Socialwok also supports WebFinger to automatically discover your Google Profile and your Google Buzz feed. We will also support many more standards like Salmon and others in order to enhance our integration with the rest of the social web.

10) OAuth access to our API - Coming Soon! Soon you will be able to access our own API using OAuth. Users will still be able to login using their Google credentials and you can build your very own apps to take advantage of the great integrations we do with Google Apps.

11) Install it right now from the Google Apps Marketplace. Join over 10k+ Google Apps domains that have already installed Socialwok! Experience Socialwok for yourself and install it your Google Apps domain today.

If you're attending Google I/O 2010, you can chat with us about Google App Engine, GWT, Google Apps Marketplace, or any other of the technologies described here in the Developer Sandbox on May 19 and 20. We look forward to seeing you there. For the latest updates on our experiences at Google I/O, check out our blog and follow us on Twitter.

Posted by Navin Kumar, founder and CTO of Socialwok