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1. Slide 1: Future of Web APIs: The Social Cloud Kevin Marks
2. Slide 2: My generation draws the Internet as a cloud that connects everyone. Kevin Marks me
3. Slide 3: 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. colleague Tim Berners-Lee contact
4. Slide 4: Connections between Computers -TCP/IP and Web Documents -HTTP Somebody Else's Problem Field
5. Slide 5: The younger generation experiences it as oxygen that supports their digital lives.
6. Slide 6: child friend met co-resident Andrew Marks
7. Slide 7: 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
8. Slide 11: URLs are people too
9. Slide 13: Links are relationships friend friend me me rel=\"me\"
10. Slide 14: Social Graph API Indexes public websites that are people Shows the 'me' and 'friend' links between them Supports the open XFN and FOAF standards Uses the standard Google crawler
11. Slide 19: Social Graph API finding me and my public friends on the web
12. Slide 20: but my friends are all here
13. Slide 23: Friends Activities Data
14. Slide 24: OpenSocial Take your Application to where the people are over 200 million people
15. Slide 25: OpenSocial People, Friends, Actions, Data in Context
16. Slide 26: Person info Name uid photo profile url
17. Slide 27: Person info A ge Name U RLs uid Books photo Mo vies profile url Smoker
18. Slide 28: Friends Viewer friends
19. Slide 29: Friends Owner friends
20. Slide 30: Friends Owner not a person?
21. Slide 31: Activities Things people do in your app
22. Slide 32: Data store data tied to people
23. Slide 33: Registration
24. Slide 34: Scaling data tied to Things people people do in your app
25. Slide 35: Relationships contact acquaintance friend met co-worker colleague co-resident neighbour child parent sibling spouse kin me muse crush date sweetheart
26. Slide 36: OpenSocial People, Friends, Actions, Data in Context
27. Slide 37: danah colleague boyd friend met
28. Slide 38: Brad co-worker friend Fitzpatrick met
29. Slide 42: 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. met co-worker Douglas Adams muse
30. Slide 43: 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. met co-worker Douglas Adams muse
31. Slide 45: Trust Friendship Context
32. Slide 46: The Social Cloud OpenSocial in your head People, Friends, Trust Actions, Friendship Data Context
33. Slide 47: Links and credits http://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.html http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html http://flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/2212387929/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joestump/1845957929/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Image:Pride_and_Prejudice_Character_Map.png http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Pride-and- Prejudice-About-the-Novel-Character- Map.id-147,pageNum-7.html brain - Leonardo Da Vinci
34. Slide 48: Further reading Video version of this: http://epeus.blogspot.com/2008/02/social-cloud.html Social 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.html Douglas Adams on the web and trust: http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html XFN relationships: http://gmpg.org/xfn/11 Tim Berners-Lee on web and global graph: http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215