How to connect social media
with open standards
Glenn Jones
Social Web Foo Camp
18 April 2009

lab.madgex.com

How the your Social Graph is built
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Open Standards Stack
Microformats Parser
Google’s Social
RSS Library
Graph API
microformats
ATOMOAuth
Library
Social Graph
Node Mapper
Digest Access Authentication

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: 20
schema: hAtom
content type: status
resource: list
action: read
authorisation: anonymous
mime type: text/html
verb: get
url-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 Stack
Social Graph Search Web wide discovery
SGN or XRD Site API/Services discovery
URI Templates URL description
Basic or OAuth Authentication & access
Microformats/RSS Standard formats

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Chaining open standards
together provides massively
great value than the
sum of the parts

1
Add microformats and
RSS/Atom to your site

2
Make sure your URL design
is RESTful

3
Add OAuth to all your
password protected
RSS feeds and web page

4
Think about discovery

Microformats Parsers
Blog
http://microformats.org/wiki/parsers
http://www.glennjones.net/
Microformats Parser - Optimus - XSLT
Madgex Labs
http://microformatique.com/optimus/
http://lab.madgex.com/
Microformats Parser - Cognition - Perl
UfXtract
http://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/
http://ufxtract.com/
Google Social Graph API
Backnetwork
http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/
http://lab.backnetwork.com/
Social Graph Node Mapper
http://code.google.com/p/google-sgnodemapper/
URI-Template
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-03
YQL
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
Portable Contacts API
http://portablecontacts.net/

XRDS-simple
http://xrds-simple.net/core/1.0/
LRDD
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-03
Eran Hammer-Lahav
http://www.hueniverse.com/

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