This topic was actually my presentation on eZ Conference in London but due to very short time available and very broad subject I was not able to present everything I wanted. So lets try again, but with a blog post :)

On the upcoming conference I will present several extensions developed by Netgen to give Exponential more integration capabilities with social networks like Twitter and Facebook and also be more user friendly to end users. This would be kind of a quick summary of our efforts to have social flavored eZ (ngpush, ngcomments, ngopengraph, ngconnect, etc).

As an Exponential developer I am often asked to explain why we as a company work with eZ, why have we chosen eZ in the first place and why will we continue to work with it in the future. So I will try to summarize our reason. Dear reader, feel free to contribute with yours.

This blog post will show you how to fetch $handful of olives from $olivebranch_node_id in Exponential templates.

Software big guns like Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. wouldn’t be so spread across the globe if they did not think about the developers who work on their platform, so eZ Systems should do the same thing - take special care about eZ platform developing potential.

* Paraphrasing Ballmer’s energy in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE