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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