Re-using data people have left around the web

Re-using data people have left around the web
Glenn JonesLondon IA – London, UK30 Mar 2009

status
bookmarks
reviews
Social Media
slides
photos
music
videos
comments

Most of us have built identities across the web, we fill in profiles, upload photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks

Identity
Identity
Distributed Identity
Identity
Our web identity is fragmented or distributed

Identity consolidation

The power of XFN rel=me
< a href=“http://www.glennjones.net/” rel=“me”>http://www.glennj... </a>

A graph (map) of rel=me linkages
Found Site
Found Site
Start Site
Found Site
Found Site
Found Site
Found Site
Found Site

Google Social Graph API
http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/otherme?
q=http://twitter.com/glennjones

A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web

10 identities - outward rel=me links
20 identities - combined outward and inward rel=me links
5 additional identities – side effect profile parsing

Profile parsing

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Embedded microformathCard

The most common details shared across
social media sites – work personas

The most common details shared across
social media sites – social personas

Parsing user generated content from discovered endpoints

Ident Engine – user generated content endpoint descriptions
{
"name": "Vimeo",
"domain": "vimeo.com",
"urlmappings": [{
"urltemplate": "http://vimeo.com/{username}/videos/rss",
"schema": "Atom",
"contenttype": "Video",
"mediatype": "Atom"
}
...

Adactio’s music taste

ljcybergal@flickr.com
Webfinger

Webfinger discovery using email address format
id=glennjonesnet domain=gmail.com
glennjonesnet@gmail.com
glennjones@twitter.com

Webfinger with gmail

Dealing with imposters androgue relationships

Split personality

1.) Start without discovery

2.) Let the user decide

3.) Only use reciprocal or outward
rel=me links only

3.) Only use outward or reciprocal
rel=me links only

Future

The identity land grab
http://twitter.com/glennjones
glennjones@twitter.com

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/
Webfinger Introduction
http://hueniverse.com/2009/08/introducing-webfinger/
Webfinger APIhttp://webfinger.org/
Ident Enginehttp://identengine.com/
UfXtractMy Microformats Parser
http://ufxtract.com/
Madgex Labshttp://lab.madgex.com/
Bloghttp://www.glennjones.net/

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