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The practical reuse of social media data to create better user experience. Combining Google’s Social Graph API with open data sources like RSS and Microformats to provide a wealth information about your users.
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Glenn JonesLondon IA – London, UK30 Mar 2009
Re-using data people have left around the web
Social Media
reviews
photos
videos
bookmarks
musicslides
status
comments
Most of us have built identities across the web, we fill in profiles, upload
photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks
Our web identity is fragmented or distributed
Identity
Identity
Distributed Identity
Identity
Identity consolidation
< a href=“http://www.glennjones.net/” rel=“me”> http://www.glennj... </a>
The power of XFN rel=me
A graph (map) of rel=me linkages
Found Site
Found Site
Found Site
Found Site
Found Site
Start SiteFound
Site
Found Site
Google Social Graph API
http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/otherme?
q=http://twitter.com/glennjones
A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web
10 identities - outward rel=me links20 identities - combined outward and inward rel=me links
5 additional identities – side effect profile parsing
Profile parsing
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Embedded microformat hCard
The most common details shared across social media sites – work personas
The most common details shared across social media sites – social personas
Parsing user generated content from discovered endpoints
Ident Engine – user generated content endpoint descriptions
{ "name": "Vimeo", "domain": "vimeo.com", "urlmappings": [{ "urltemplate": "http://vimeo.com/{username}/videos/rss", "schema": "Atom", "contenttype": "Video", "mediatype": "Atom" } ...
Adactio’s music taste
Webfinger with gmail
Dealing with imposters androgue relationships
Split personality
1.) Start without discovery
2.) Let the user decide
3.) Only use reciprocal or outward rel=me links only
3.) Only use outward or reciprocalrel=me links only
Future
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/
Webfinger Introductionhttp://hueniverse.com/2009/08/introducing-webfinger/
Webfinger APIhttp://webfinger.org/
Ident Enginehttp://identengine.com/
UfXtractMy Microformats Parser http://ufxtract.com/
Madgex Labshttp://lab.madgex.com/
Bloghttp://www.glennjones.net/
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
Copyright Glenn Jones 2010www.glennjones.net
