Programming Social Applications

How the Shared Likes Appear

Once the user interacts with a site including the OpenLike widget and shares some content by “liking” it, that action will be posted out to the appropriate source.

For instance, if you “like” the example implementation page shown in Figure 2-4 using the Facebook option, your Facebook profile will display a new like notification (Figure 2-5).

Figure 2-5. An OpenLike activity event on Facebook

The process is that simple. OpenLike is a base widget that builds upon any single sharing or like functionality to allow users to push out notifications to whatever source they choose.