Developers, check out the IBM Social Business Toolkit Videos and News  

By OpenNTF | 9/24/13 6:27 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Social Business Toolkit can be used to build social applications, e.g. via XPages, and to extend IBM Collaboration Solutions, e.g. IBM SmartCloud Connections.

New Release of the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK on OpenNTF  

By OpenNTF | 9/12/13 2:31 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

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

Image with IBM Connections 4.5 available for OpenNTF Developers  

By OpenNTF | 8/20/13 2:30 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

OpenNTF is hosting an IBM Connections App Dev Contest sponsored by TIMETOACT GROUP. Contribute your open source project between now and November 3rd and have a chance to win one of five $1000 prizes.

IBM Connections Contest has been extended  

By OpenNTF | 6/6/13 5:26 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

OpenNTF has extended the deadline for the submissions of the IBM Connections App Dev Contest until November 3rd. This gives developers the chance to work with the new Social Business Toolkit SDK which has an updated JavaScript API, new documentation, API ...

Participate in the IBM Connections App Dev Contest and leverage Connections Test Environments  

By OpenNTF | 5/3/13 1:04 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

OpenNTF is hosting an IBM Connections app dev contest with five $1000 prizes. You can submit your open source code until June 23th. Developers who'd like to participate and don't have their own on-premises IBM Connections installation can leverage different development environments. The contest website describes these different options.

New Release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK  

By OpenNTF | 4/16/13 7:02 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Mark Wallace has uploaded a new release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK. Below he describes the new functionality.

On OpenNTF: OpenSocial Gadget for Facebook in Embedded Experience  

By OpenNTF | 3/19/13 2:09 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Tao Shang and Rui Qi Shi have contributed a new project - OpenSocial Gadget for Facebook in EE. They describe the functionality of this gadget in the IBM Connections wiki.

On OpenNTF: IBM Connections Toolbar for Firefox  

By OpenNTF | 3/18/13 1:44 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Gearoid O Treasaigh, Ciaran O'Hallachain and Paul Magrath have open sourced the IBM Connections Toolbar for Firefox. It's the same version that is also available in the IBM Collaboration Solutions Catalog, but now available under the Apache ...

IBM Connections 4 Image available for OpenNTF Developers  

By OpenNTF | 3/11/13 2:52 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

As part of the IBM Connections App Dev Contest OpenNTF provides a shared development image instance running in the IBM SmartCloud. This image runs Connections 4.0 CR2, Domino 8.5.3 FP3, the latest OpenNTF extension library, 80 test user accounts, single sign on configured and the latest Social Business Toolkit SDK and the playground from OpenNTF.

New Release of IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK  

By OpenNTF | 3/5/13 5:50 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

There is a new release of the Social Business Toolkit SDK with a lot of extensions and fixes. See below for the description of this release from Bhavesh Shah.

Announcing and launching the Appathon - Social App Dev Contests  

By OpenNTF | 2/26/13 12:59 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

OpenNTF is happy to announce and launch the Appathon sponsored by TIMETOACT GROUP, WebGate Consulting AG and IBM developerWorks. Contribute your open source project between now and June 23th and have a chance to win one of ten $1000 prizes.

Two new OpenNTF Projects for IBM Connections  

By OpenNTF | 2/20/13 4:09 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Xujin Liu has contributed two open source projects for IBM Connections - Poll iWidget for IBM Connections and EMail Notifications for Connections File Comments.

Appathon - Social App Dev Contests  

By OpenNTF | 2/8/13 1:25 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Appathon - Social App Dev Contests

Open Source for IBM Connections Developers on OpenNTF  

By OpenNTF | 2/7/13 3:11 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Over the last months developers have contributed several open source projects on OpenNTF.org to build extensions to IBM Connections and to access IBM Connections from custom apps. Below is a short overview.

IBM releases the new IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK as Open Source  

By OpenNTF | 12/4/12 7:13 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The SDK is targeted towards web and Java developers to easily access IBM Social Platform, including IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. It can be run on many Java application servers like WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat, WebSphere Portal and Domino. The SDK provides easy to use JavaScript and Java APIs that encapsulate authentication mechanisms like OAuth, avoid JSON and Atom parsing and abstract the specific target environments.