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