WebEx Social is an OpenSocial container and can host OpenSocial gadgets. Gadgets are mini-applications built using HTML and Javascript. Gadgets can be used to add custom functionality to WebEx Social. You can create gadgets that access external services, or data specific to your organization.

You can also create gadgets that use the WebEx Social REST APIs to add your own custom functionality to the WebEx Social UI.

Gadgets work seamlessly within WebEx Social and the gadget will handle the OAuth authentication for the WebEx Social APIs for you.

We've created tutorials and sample code to help you get started with developing gadgets for WebEx Social.

• If you are new to gadgets, you should begin with Gadget Basics.
• If you are already are familiar with developing gadgets, you may want to go directly to Creating WebEx Social Gadgets to find out more about how to create gadgets that use the WebEx Social APIs.