by IBM Social Business Toolkit 

Customizing Authentication User Interfaces in the IBM Social Business Toolkit  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 10/21/13 1:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Rajmeet Singh Bal has published a video to explain how developers can choose different available authentication UI options and how they can customize the user experience, e.g. via custom specific login pages.

New IBM Social Business Toolkit Homepage with Extensibility Documentation  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 10/16/13 1:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We’ve updated the IBM Social Business Toolkit homepage. In addition to information about how developers can use the SDK to build social apps, we’ve added a second section with information how you can extend IBM Collaboration Solutions.

Access IBM SmartCloud for Social Business from PHP  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 10/14/13 2:11 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

My colleague Van Staub has written two articles how to access IBM SmartCloud for Social Business (SC4SB) from PHP.

New Release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK posted  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/30/13 1:31 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The focus for this release was on delivering some new Service API’s and UI controls that were requested by the community. The team also focused on stabilizing our Continuous Delivery infrastructure which will enable us to release more regular stable builds of the SDK.trans New Release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK posted

Video: Development Environments for Social Application Developers  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/26/13 12:53 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

For the last months the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team has focused on consumability. We want to make it as easy as possible for developers to get started and to use our technology. Part of this bigger effort has been the new landing page, the improved documentation, new SDK functionality and so forth.

Two forthcoming Social Business Application Development Workshops  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/25/13 2:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

After Ireland, Germany, France and the United States the Social Business Application Development workshop will take place in Australia and Malaysia next month.

Webinar on September 25th: How to use the Social Business Development Environments  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/19/13 1:39 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

On September 25th at 10:00 AM EDT we’ll host our next Social Business Toolkit webinar. Paul Bastide will describe the different development environments that are available for social business developers: QuickStart image, IBM Greenhouse, SmartCloud test environment, images for partners, etc.

Preconfigured Development Environment - IBM Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business v3.0  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/18/13 2:16 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

How many times have you setup IBM Connections, IBM Sametime and IBM Domino to replicate a complete customer environment? 100 times, 10 times, 1 time?

How To Add Your Own OpenSocial Gadgets To Connections - Replay Available!  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/18/13 12:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last week I held a webinar on how to add your own OpenSocial gadgets to IBM Connections. We covered various use cases for using OpenSocial gadgets in Connections and touched on a variety of topics related to testing and deploying your gadgets to Connections.

Web Content Management Extension for IBM Connections  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/12/13 2:33 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM partner TIMETOACT GROUP developed a product Custom Page & Web CMS Extension for IBM Connections.

Context based Information from IBM Connections integrated in SugarCRM  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/11/13 3:37 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM business partner Highland Solutions has developed a nice integration feature between IBM Connections and SugarCRM called SemanticCRM.

New release of Social Business Toolkit SDK posted  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/10/13 3:36 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

A new release of the Social Business Toolkit is available for download here.

Social Project Management for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/10/13 3:35 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Trilog Group provides a solution ProjExec® Live which is a social project management application for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business leveraging the IBM Connections functionality in the cloud.

Major Update to the IBM Social Business Toolkit Documentation  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/9/13 12:20 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Social Business Toolkit Software Development Kit provides APIs and services to help you develop Java and web applications for IBM® Connections and IBM SmartCloud® for Social Business.

Video: How to access the Activity Stream in IBM Connections  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 9/9/13 1:57 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Bill Looby and Francis Moloney presented in the last webinar how to access the activity stream in IBM Connections programmatically.

Integrate IBM SmartCloud for Social Business in your own Apps  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/28/13 3:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Vimal Dhupar from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team has published a new video in which she describes how to access functionality provided by the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business from your own apps.

How to run the Social Business Toolkit Java and JavaScript Samples locally using Tomcat  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/27/13 4:00 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK comes with a set of simple samples that demonstrate how to access IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business via the JavaScript and Java APIs. These samples can be run locally by using a preconfigured Tomcat server that comes as part of the SDK.

Access Files from IBM Connections via UI Controls  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/22/13 1:10 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

David Ryan from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team has published a new video that shows the files controls in action. The files controls can be used in custom applications to access files in IBM Connections via reusing UI controls and without having to use APIs.

How to integrate vCards from IBM Connections Users and Communities  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/21/13 1:47 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Francis Moloney describes in the video below how you can leverage the electronic business cards (vCard) of IBM Connections users and communities in your own applications. The IBM Social Business Toolkit provides some easy to reuse UI controls which can be configured and customized easily.

Everything Developers need to know to access the Activity Stream in IBM Connections  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/20/13 1:51 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Next Wednesday (08/28/13 at 11:00 AM EST) Bill Looby and Francis Moloney will present how developers can access the activity stream in IBM Connections.

Demo: Access IBM SmartCloud for Social Business via OAuth  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/19/13 3:47 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In this video Manish Kataria from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team describes how you can access the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business via OAuth. Manish starts with a general description of OAuth2.0. After this he demonstrates how you can register your own OAuth app with IBM SmartCloud and then use these credentials from the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK.

Attend today's Webinar "How to extend IBM Connections Communities and Profiles"  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 8/14/13 1:55 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Today (08/14/13 at 11:00 AM EST) IBM will host the next IBM Social Business Toolkit webinar. In this webinar Vincent Burckhardt will explain how to extend IBM Connections Communities and Profiles via iWidgets.

Inject social Capabilities into your Web Applications  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 7/25/13 1:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Rajmeet Singh Bal from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team describes in this video how you can quickly convert your web applications into social web applications using the IBM Social Business Toolkit in five steps.

How to consume the Social Business Toolkit SDK in a Web Application  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 7/23/13 1:50 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Projjwal Saha from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team describes in this video how to use the SDK in your own web applications. His step by step instructions include the download of the SDK, setup of the Eclipse IDE and the actual configuration and coding.

IBM Social Business Toolkit JAVA APIs Deep Dive  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 7/22/13 1:28 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Vineet Kanwal from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team talks in this video about the Java APIs provided by the SDK. Watch the video to get an overview of the available Java APIs for IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and to learn how to use them in our own web applications.

IBM Social Business Toolkit JavaScript APIs Deep Dive  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 7/18/13 1:16 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Rajmeet Singh Bal from the IBM Social Business Toolkit development team talks in this video about the JavaScript APIs provided by the SDK. Watch the video to get an overview of the available JavaScript APIs for IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and to learn how to use them in our own web applications.

Set up your Eclipse IDE for Social Business Application Development in less than 5 Minutes  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 7/16/13 1:52 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Carlos Manias has created a video in which he explains how to set up an Eclipse IDE with the IBM SBT SDK and a local Tomcat servers within a few minutes. After the installation you can run the simple Java and JavaScript samples from your IDE as well as the more sophisticated Acme airline sample.

New Version of the IBM Collaboration QuickStart Image with IBM Domino 9  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 7/10/13 1:08 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

There is a new version of the IBM Collaboration QuickStart image available in the IBM SmartCloud, called the 28 June 2013 release.

Video Series: Extend and access IBM Connections in less than 100 Seconds  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 7/4/13 1:59 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I've created some videos in which I demonstrate in less than 100 seconds different ways to extend and access IBM Connections. Developers can follow these instructions to develop contributions for the IBM Connections App Dev contest.

Video: How to use the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK from Java  

By IBM Social Business Toolkit | 6/27/13 9:34 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Yesterday we hosted our second IBM Social Business Toolkit webinar. Bhavesh Shah, the lead developer of the SDK, gave a one hour session with many live demos showing how to access IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business from Java.