Dear Spring Community, I'm happy to share the news that Morten Andersen-Gott (aka, @mortenag on Twitter or magott on GitHub) has released Spring Social Yammer 1.0.0. Spring Social Yammer is one of over 25 community-led extension to Spring Social. It brings Spring Social-style connection and API binding support to applications needing to connect with Yammer. Spring Social Yammer can be found at the following links: Spring Social Yammer is also available in the Maven Central repository for inclusion as a dependency in your Maven or Gradle builds. Morten announced the release via Twitter at http…

Show of hands: Who’s on Facebook? Any Twitter users reading this? Almost everyone I know is on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or some other social network site. In fact, most people I know maintain a presence on multiple social network sites. According to recent numbers thrown about, Facebook has over 750 million users and Twitter has over 200 million users. Even my mom is on Facebook. Okay, you can put your hands down now. With such a large audience, it can be easy to find business-led motives for building applications that target those users. From a more personal, individual perspective…