1. Social Network API Satya Ram Twanabasu Wei Wei

2. Social Network API Motivation API Libraries for Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Networking Sites

3. Motivation Urge of Social Network Sites We don't need to develop another Facebook...! Plethora of Mobile App. Based using Social Networking APIs  MeetByChance,SocialMuse,AgileMessanger  TweetDeck,TweetAssist,SwiftTwitter,XeekuTwitter

4. OpenSocial Social Networking API by Google http://www.opensocial.org API supports for Hi5,MySpace,Orkut,Netlog,FriendFinder. Based on HTML & JavaScript Released on Nov '07(v0.5) and latest version is 1.1(Nov '10)

5. OpenSocial for Java OpenSocial Java Client Library JSON based Java Library packaged into single.jar file Well documented and easy to use. Not yet stable version and hence regularly updated.

6. facebook-android-sdk API for FB by FB targeting Android https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk Facebook Application ID must be set for developing any mobile app. with this SDK http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php Very active project, first began on May'10 Well documented and highly recommended

7. Twitter4j Unofficial Java library for the Twitter API http://twitter4j.org Targeted for Android and well-documented Single.jar file no dependency for Oauth file Latest version is 2.1.11 Recommended API for Android

8. JTwitter Java library for the Twitter API http://www.winterwell.com/software/jtwitter.php Open Source Project by Daniel Winterstei Packaged into two.jar files – twitter.jar and signpost.jar Small library with easy access to Twitter If you can do it at twitter.com, you can probably do it with Jtwitter - homepage

9. Twitter-Android-sdk Open Source Project hosted on githhub https://github.com/sugree/twitter-android-sdk Initiated by a Sugree(an active member of GithHub) on Oct 30,2010 Very initial stage and not mature enough