PhotoHunt: An example of social graph integration
If you are unfamiliar with the PhotoHunt application, you can read the Java server overview here and can download the app from the Google+ GitHub page. I’m going to share some ideas in this post that have been coming up…
Selectively rendering interactive posts
In some rare cases, it makes sense to render interactive posts selectively, falling back to the share button. For example, you might want to do this when your uses could be fickel enough to drop off when prompted to sign…
Common issues and solutions for the new Google+ platform release
So yesterday, we had our big launch and developers have be jumping in and writing code (you guys are awesome!). A number of folks have been encountering the same issues and I think it’s probably a good time to summarize…
Google+ Sign-in Launches: Key Resources
I won’t say too much about this now because I’m going to be heads down for the rest of the day with various launch-related tasks… but Google+ Sign-in has launched. We have tons of new documentation on the Google+ developers…
Handling events for +1
A feature that I haven’t really talked about yet, events on +1 buttons, is interesting because it enables so many exciting scenarios for developers interested in doing something when their users click the +1 button and so on. A high…
Switching to pure HTML for Google+ badge, +1, and Share
As you may have noticed, Google+ has been pushing to an updated approach to rendering the +1 and share buttons. I for one have been a guilty party and have needed to update my +1 and share links on my…
A tale of two RESTful API queries…
At the suggestion of +Will Norris, I updated this demo code for translating URLs to activity IDs to now use a filter. The following code highlights the differences: < + '/activities/public?fields=items%2Fid%2Citems%2Furl&key=' + key — > + '/activities/public?key=' + key The…
Getting an activity ID from a Google+ Post URL
Taking the URL to a post and then determining the post ID for additional API calls is a little tricky but also fundamental for the Google+ public data API. First, you have to list activities and then search through them…
Google+ Server Side flow in C#
Out of date Heads up dear reader, a whole lot has happened in the past 18 months and so this post is out of date. Please read my latest here – How to: OAuth 2.0 Flows in .NET using C#…
Pulling Google+ data into Windows Store apps
If you caught the last GDL show for Google+, I demoed a few things I have been working on, most notably my Google+ demo for Windows 8. The following screenshot shows the app running within the Windows 8 Simulator: As…