Rajdeep Dua looks at the evolution of the social web and the need for OpenSocial and the OpenSocial foundation. He also covers the details of the OpenSocial APIs, Javascript, REST APIs and OAuth based Authentication. Finally he looks at what’s new in OpenSocial spec and the architecture of Shindig ( OpenSocial reference implementation )

The highlight of Day 2 of the 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference On Java were the discussions and code labs on building social networking software. The Google Developer Relations team consisting of Rajdeep Dua, Anash Oommen and Vijaya Machavolu showed how one could use OpenSocial API to build software that runs on top of popular social networks like Orkut and LinkedIn.