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Social websites and social mobile applications run outside of social networks but consume social data through REST or RPC APIs. Users of these apps can grant access to their data using 3-legged OAuth without needing to add an application on a social network. This design pattern grants the most flexibility - almost all languages and platforms can take advantage of this data.

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The Social Website Tutorial will walk you through creating a simple application from start to finish.

To write your own website or mobile app from scratch:

Read the OpenSocial REST Developer's Guide to learn how to access social features from your server.

Use an OpenSocial Client Library to speed up your development.

Understand the difference between 2 and 3-legged OAuth and when to use each one.

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