how to connect social media with open standards

How to connect social mediawith open standards

Glenn Jones Social Web Foo Camp18 April 2009

lab.madgex.com

Start SiteOutward claim

How the your Social Graph is built

Found Site

rel=me

Start SiteInward claimFound

Siterel=me

Start SiteReciprocal claimFound

Siterel=me

< 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

1

Make sure your URL design is RESTful

2

Add OAuth to all your password protected

RSS feeds and web page

3

Think about discovery

4

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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