Preface

There once was an engineer named Todd who had a vision of creating the programmable web. He wrote a white paper describing his ideas and the social climate for making his vision a reality. As the participation in social networking continued to grow (and, as we have noted in Chapter 5, continues to grow each month by big numbers), the motivation for implementing such a widget-building, application-building environment becomes easier and easier to justify.

This book comes out on the leading edge of zembly’s existence. The environment we document and describe today will no doubt change, but for you pioneers of social network programming, it will only get richer, easier, and more rewarding (maybe even financially rewarding).

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