By 2011, one-half of all online adults and 84 percent of online teens in the U.S. will use social networking each month,"  We will review the basics of  two Social Networking sites. Open social (Orkut) and Facebook API's  are the way programmers can create custom applications that a socially aware. Microsoft has sponsored a toolkit to add to visual studio that allows easy access to the Facebook api REST programming model. We will review basic development process and create a simple app to show how to access friend data and install an app in the Facebook directory.  As an added bonus Andy Schwam will give us a sneak peak at a new start up that promises to kick the doors in on this space.

Mark Magliocco is an Entrepreneur, Independent consultant, and Microsoft centered developer specializing in Intranet and large scale corporate development. Areas of experience: SYSTEMS ARCHITECT, SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGNER, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING, MENTOR, AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER. Personal Bio site at www.markm.com