Why I’m excited about the Google Social Graph API - Bokardo
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Saved by 10 people (-4 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-02-03
- Carstenp on 2008-11-11 - Tags google , api , social_graph , data_portability , blog_it
- Marshallrww on 2008-03-20 - Tags api , google , social_graph , toread
- Jackie on 2008-02-12 - Tags api , google , socialgraph
- Pmorelli on 2008-02-10 - Tags google , programming , social
- Colacino on 2008-02-07 - Tags google , api , leitura , infovis
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The Social Graph API helps solve this “silos of information” problem by allowing people to write software that understands who your friends are. It does this by reading your web site or blog and making connections between the social profiles you have across the web.
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So that’s the big reason why I’m excited by the Social Graph API: it helps to solve a real tough problem brought on by the proliferation of social networks.
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Google is an aggregator, not a creator. Google will be in competition to have the best aggregator of the graph.
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Since the relationship information is embedded within web sites anybody can index this information. So competitors can come along and try to provide a better API or better tools than Google.
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The social relationships that the API exposes are encoded in regular old HTML using the XFN and FOAF formats.
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