FREE webinar - Designing And Creating A Social Book App Using Open-source Technologies

1/29/2013 Noon - 1:00 (CT) Designing And Creating A Social Book App Using Open-source Technologies (OReilly) Join us for an interactive webcast where Canadian designer, Haig Armen will share the strategy, design and technology used to create a new approach to a digital book - a social book. Why not use open source content management systems to provide a social layer, with comment moderation, contributor registration and even content syncing? See how a simple Wordpress CMS can drive a distributed social reading experience through a PhoneGap-based multi-platform social app which features a unique gestural interface with dynamically-updated content. Participants will learn: How to think about digital books as a micro-community using a distributed cloud-based content model How to balance social functionality within a digital book and how to design gesturals interfaces to imply metaphorical meaning See how to combine open source tools to build an affordable social book mobile application. http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2547