How to connect social mediawith open standards
Glenn Jones Social Web Foo Camp18 April 2009
lab.madgex.com
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How the your Social Graph is built
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rel=me
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< a href=“http://www.glennjones.net/” rel=“me”>Glenn Jones</a>
Open Standards Stack
Digest Access Authentication
Social Graph Node Mapper
Microformats Parser
OAuthmicroformats
RSS Library
ATOM Library
Google’s SocialGraph API
Social Graph Node Mapper
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/
sgn://flickr.com/?ident=glennjonesnet
profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/
rss: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/...
priority: 20schema: hAtomcontent type: statusresource: listaction: readauthorisation: anonymousmime type: text/htmlverb: geturl-template: http://twitter.com/{username}/
XRD discovery is on its way
<XRD>
<Subject>http://twitter.com/</Subject>
<Link priority=“10”>
<Rel>profile</Rel>
<Type>http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard</Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/contenttype/profile</Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/resoucetype/item</Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/action/read</Type>
<Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/verb/get</Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/authorisation/anonymous</Type>
<URITemplate>http://twitter.com/{username}</URITemplate><MediaType>text/html</MediaType>
</Link>
</XRD>Conceptual outline of XRD-Based service description.
To find out more about XRD read Eran Hammer-Lahav blog hueniverse.com
Open StackSocial Graph Search
SGN or XRD
URI Templates
Basic or OAuth
Microformats/RSS
Web wide discovery
Site API/Services discovery
URL description
Authentication & access
Standard formats
lab.madgex.com/identify
lab.madgex.com/microformats/apidemo/
Chaining open standards together provides massively
great value than the sum of the parts
Add microformats and RSS/Atom to your site
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Make sure your URL design is RESTful
2
Add OAuth to all your password protected
RSS feeds and web page
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Think about discovery
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Microformats Parsershttp://microformats.org/wiki/parsers
Microformats Parser - Optimus - XSLT http://microformatique.com/optimus/
Microformats Parser - Cognition - Perlhttp://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/
Google Social Graph APIhttp://socialgraph.apis.google.com/
Social Graph Node Mapperhttp://code.google.com/p/google-sgnodemapper/
URI-Templatehttp://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-03
YQLhttp://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
Portable Contacts APIhttp://portablecontacts.net/
Bloghttp://www.glennjones.net/
Madgex Labs http://lab.madgex.com/
UfXtracthttp://ufxtract.com/
Backnetworkhttp://lab.backnetwork.com/
XRDS-simplehttp://xrds-simple.net/core/1.0/
LRDD http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-03
Eran Hammer-Lahavhttp://www.hueniverse.com/
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