OpenSocial Tutorials

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/tutorial.html

Tutorial: “Gadget Tutorial,” from Google. Discusses building a social gadget for giving gifts to friends, the SocialNorms utility, OpenSocial Resources project, getting to know the code, welcoming a viewer, the Gadgets.friends method, the Gadgets.gifts method, the HandleChange1 function, notifying friends, and showing a profile.

How to Build Your First Social Gadget

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/firstgadget.html

Tutorial: “How to Build Your First Social Gadget,” from Google. Discusses building a gadget that displays profile information, prerequisites for this tutorial, displaying information about a user, adding a Require element, creating an opensocial.newDataRequest object, and displaying information about your friends.

How to Read and Write Shared Social Data

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/readwrite.html

Tutorial: “How to Read and Write Shared Social Data,” from Google. Discusses the prerequisites for this tutorial, reading and writing to the shared data store, adding a Require element, creating an opensocial.newDataRequest object, defining the requestData function, and defining the showdata callback method.