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Future of Web APIs: The Social Cloud
Kevin Marks
My generation draws the Internet as a cloud that connects everyone.
Kevin Marks me
instead of having to navigate phone lines from one computer to the next, you could write programs as though the net were just one big cloud, where messages went in at your computer and came out at the destination one.
Tim Berners-Lee colleaguecontact
Connections between Computers -TCP/IP
andWeb Documents -HTTP
Somebody Else's Problem Field
The younger generation experiences it as oxygen that supports their digital lives.
Andrew Marks
childfriendmetco-resident
My generation draws the Internet as a cloud that connects everyone. The younger generation experiences it as oxygen that supports their digital lives. The old generation sees this as a poisonous gas that has leaked out of their pipes, and they want to seal it up again
URLs are people too
Links are relationships
me me
friend friend
rel="me"
Social Graph APIIndexes public websites that are peopleShows the 'me' and 'friend' links between themSupports the open XFN and FOAF standardsUses the standard Google crawler
Social Graph API
finding me and my public friends
on the web
but my friends are all here
Friends
Activities
Data
OpenSocialTake your Application to where the people areover 200 million people
OpenSocialPeople, Friends,
Actions,Data in Context
Person infoNameuidphotoprofile url
Person info
Person infoNameuidphotoprofile url
Age
Books
Movies
URLs
Smoker
Friends
Viewer friends
FriendsOwner friends
FriendsOwner not a person?
Activities
Things peopledo in your app
Data store
data tied to people
Registration
Scalingdata tied to
peopleThings peopledo in your app
Relationshipscontact acquaintance friendmet co-worker colleagueco-resident neighbour childparent sibling spouse kin memuse crush date sweetheart
OpenSocialPeople, Friends,
Actions,Data in Context
colleaguefriendmet
danahboyd
Brad Fitzpatrick
co-workerfriendmet
Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants.
Douglas Adams
metco-workermuse
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
metco-workermuse
TrustFriendshipContext
The Social CloudOpenSocial
People, Friends,Actions,
Data
TrustFriendshipContext
in your head
Links and creditshttp://globalnerdy.com/2007/07/23/kids-say-email-is-only-for-talking-to-the-man/http://www.flickr.com/photos/platinum/6056978/http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/416449908/http://xkcd.com/c256.htmlhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.htmlhttp://flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/2212387929/http://www.flickr.com/photos/joestump/1845957929/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pride_and_Prejudice_Character_Map.pnghttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Pride-and-Prejudice-About-the-Novel-Character-Map.id-147,pageNum-7.htmlbrain - Leonardo Da Vinci
Further readingVideo version of this:http://epeus.blogspot.com/2008/02/social-cloud.htmlSocial Graph API:http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/OpenSocial:http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/danah boyd on Social network history:http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.htmlDouglas Adams on the web and trust:http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.htmlXFN relationships:http://gmpg.org/xfn/11Tim Berners-Lee on web and global graph:http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215