Ringside Social Application Server

It is clear that social networking capabilities are being actively weaved into the World Wide Web, which means that almost every website owner will need to figure out how to incorporate socially aware applications as an integral part of their online user experience. They need something designed to operate at the intersection of social networks, social applications, and existing corporate websites.

Ringside Social Application Server is the first open source platform that enables website owners to build and deploy social applications that operate with existing website content and business applications while seamlessly integrating with social networks such as Facebook and OpenSocial sites. This provides three primary advantages:

  • Maximizes existing investments by making corporate websites and business applications socially aware.
  • Ensures social applications can be customized to meet the unique needs of your business.
  • Leverages your existing corporate website brand, look and feel.

Key highlights of the Ringside Social Application Server include:

  • Facebook Compatibility and Interoperability: Enables any Facebook application to run on the Ringside Social Application Server with minimal changes. For Facebook developers, this provides the ability to develop applications on their laptops and deploy to Facebook and/or any website. Read more...
  • OpenSocial Compatibility and Interoperability: Provides the ability to seamlessly work with other social networks such as MySpace, Hi5, Orkut, and Bebo in a standard manner. For OpenSocial developers, this provides the ability to develop applications on their laptops and deploy to their website and/or any OpenSocial compatible site. Read more...
  • Social Application Engine: Enables website developers to quickly build, customize and deploy their own social applications.
  • Social Applications: Includes a set of standard social applications such as user profiles, friends, groups, comments, ratings, favorites, events, etc.
  • Social Intelligence: Allows business owners to gain insight into their customers, users, relationships, groups, and interactions taking place on their website.
  • Federated Social Graphs: Provides the ability to integrate a Ringside-based social graph with other social networks such as Facebook with full user authentication and security as well as appropriate use according to the Facebook Terms of Service.
  • Extensible API and Tag Library: Enables developers to extend Facebook's API and Markup Language as well as define their own application-specific APIs and Tags in order to handle custom behavior and improve website integration.
  • Pluggable Domain Specific Languages: Allows seamless integration of any valid domain specific language (DSL) and the ability to extend existing DSLs. The Facebook Markup Language, for example, is implemented as an open DSL which also makes it extensible.
  • Rapid, Scalable Deployment: Offers complete deployment flexibility - hosted, on-premise, and/or Web 2.0 distributed.
  • Open Source: Provides the transparency to see what's occurring in the platform you're developing on, as well as encourages community participation that ensures the technology keeps pace with the rapidly changing needs of social networking.