Open Hack 2008 Mybloglog

MyBlogLog API Real Users, Real Data Ian Kennedy

DNS service for people
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Basic Demographics
Friends, Sites
Tags
Lifestream
3 rd Party IDs
RSS Out

MyBlogLog API
In production today, real users, real data
member.find.byguid to map YID to MBL ID
XML, JSON, Serialized PHP output
Public & Private Data

API Deets – Profiles “members”
Lookup Members
By Screenname on mybloglog.com
By Screenname on 3 rd party service
By Tag
By Yahoo GUID
Info about Members
List Contacts
List Sites Joined
List Tags, Sites Authored, Recent Sites Joined
Messages
Lifestream

Sample Code
<id> 2007072014210030 </id>
<nickname> Robyn T </nickname>
<screen_name> robynt </screen_name>
<pict> http://F3.yahoofs.com/coreid/46f31b9ci1dcazul1sp1/4jGPrJsjNbKMHbdQEXT3vTA-/1/tn48.jpg?ciAkOOHBfbly9NYo </pict>
<url> http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/robynt/ </url>
<profile>
<age/>
<sex> female </sex>
<location>
<city> San Francisco </city>
<region/>
<country> US </country>
<zip/>
<bio/>
</location>
</profile>

API Deets – Sites “communities”
Lookup Sites
By Author
By Name
By Tag
List Members
Info about Sites
Shared Members for two sites
Tags for a Site
Stats for a Site

Sample Code
<id> 2005081115473684 </id>
<member_count> 36972 </member_count>
<author_count> 6 </author_count>
<name> MyBlogLog </name>
<description> Know what engages your readers </description>
<url> http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/mybloglog/ </url>
<site_url> http://www.mybloglog.com </site_url>
<pict> http://s3.amazonaws.com/buzz_sh/2005081115473684_sh.jpg </pict>

API Deets – Lifestream “New with Me”
Lookup Lifestreams
By Member
By Member’s Contacts
By Member’s Tags “topics”
By Tags “topics”

Sample Code
<event>
<name> delicious </name>
<member>
<id> 2007040920150647 </id>
<nickname> Incubus </nickname>
<screen_name> billy21 </screen_name>
<pict> http://f3.yahoofs.com/coreid/47623229i15c6zul2sp1/AJjnJfA7cqcCjYjr1l.CVwt1OgU-/101/tn48.jpg?ciAoq_HBQILY1cPb </pict>
<url> http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/billy21/ </url>
</member>
<username> billy21 </username>
<title> Meteora Javascript Widgets </title>
<url> http://meteora.astrata.com.mx/ </url>
<description></description>
<topics> ajax javascript mootools tool tools web web2.0 widgets </topics>
<created_at> 2008-03-25T00:04:58-07:00 </created_at>
</event>

API Deets – OAuth methods
community join
messaging
send message
remove message
bulk community message
report spam
add/delete services
edit profile
bio
page
stats
daily summary
top referrers
top outgoing clicks
top pageviews

Sample Exercise
Find user Tags
member.find.byscreenname
member.find.byid
Find user Lifestream
member.find.byid
member.newwithme
Find Site Description
community.find.byname
community.readers.list

Inspiration
Community Visualization

Inspiration – Quick Registration
Mobissiomo.com

Inspiration - BlogJuice
kentbrewster.com/blogjuice

Inspiration - FOAFster
kentbrewster.com/foafster

Inspiration – Simple Behavioral Targeting
Just For You @ WordPress
Tags = Web 2.0, mybloglog Tags = Alameda, Japan

More Info
Site - mybloglog.com
Docs - hackday.developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog
Console - hackday.developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog/console.html

Open Hack 2008 Mybloglog

by ian kennedy on Sep 12, 2008

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