Within the confines of an application, the OpenSocial specification defines a large number of features that are available for containers to implement. Some of the OpenSocial specification’s more useful features are JavaScript libraries that contain helper functions to aid developers with the construction of their applications—whether by saving simple key/value pairs of data for a user without a database, or displaying messages that aren’t dismissed by pop-up blockers.
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