Introduction to the Social Graph API

http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph
Google engineer Brad Fitzpatrick gives an introduction to the Social Graph API. The Social Graph API makes information about the public connections between people more easily available. Developers can query this public information to offer their users dramatically streamlined "add friends" functionality and other useful features.

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[estodril]

This is of great use to indentity thiefs and big brother governemnts.

[martoon]

What if bob692 wished to remain anonymous?

[loford]

I was just looking in Google for rel="me" and found the Explanation here from this NSA guy.

[OXOChart]

The Chart is finally here!

Connect. Connect.

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[aJustinBieberSongs]

Nice Drawing huh/

[Benjamin Bender]

Just might as wall accept that the only thing private anymore exists only between your two ears. As long as my phone can point me to the nearest latte on sale while I tweet my location to all my "friends" on Farmville......I guess I'm happy.

[Tony Hirst]

Here’s an example of the Social Graph API in action – powering a visualisation that shows connections between people who have recently tweeted a particular term or hashtag: blog.ouseful.info/2011/04/12/u­sing-protovis-to-visualise-con­nections-between-people-tweeti­ng-a-particular-term/

[Jonatas Esteves]

This is not a product. This is an API for software developers. This is a technical IT video and doesn't mean nothing to normal users, really.

[Jonatas Esteves]

All this information is already there and identity thieves and big brother governments already use it. What is being proposed here is a common, standard API so that *we*, the good developers doing really usefull apps like Twitter, Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, etc. can use it too to comunicate better with each other and show that widget to our users that says: "You probably know this guy. Why don't you follow him too".

[Suavsilk]

lol classic, hell good

[bbyrd009b]

if anything, I'd say it might propagate a bit more slowly for one glaring reason-I don't see a link to Register/Declare URLs 'on' the social graph!...but I'm looking...