Ident Engine
Glenn has taken Google's Social Graph API, YQL and various parsers, and he's wrapped it all up in one JavaScript library. The demos are mind-boggingly impressive.
Tags: social_graph
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Identify: Google People With Two Keystrokes - ReadWriteWeb
A nice overview of Glenn's XFN Firefox plug-in.
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Portal Me
A person-specific portal generated using Google's Social Graph API. And it's less than 5K!
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Identify - Firefox entension | Madgex Lab
Okay, I know I said "holy freakin' crap!" the last time I linked to one of Glenn's Social Graph API experiments but now he's gone and created a Firefox plug-in: press alt-i and you can see the social graph for anyone's site. Holy freakin' crap!
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Social Graph Explorer | Madgex Lab
Holy freaking crap! Glenn's Social Graph Explorer is bloody brilliant!
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Ben has written a superb article outlining the hows and whys of distributed social networks with hCard and XFN, finishing with an inspiring call to arms.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Social networks may be imaginary | The Register
My new motto is "The Social Graph is a Spherical Cow."
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Giant Global Graph | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
TIm Berners-Lee explains what the "graph" part of "social graph" means. I'm still not keen on the term but I really love the idea (although I also disagree about the building blocks required today).