Archive for the 'social' Category

Creating a HTML “friends” page from a Google Reader subscription list
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Google’s Social Graph API crawls the web and extracts publicly available relationship data (edges) for people on various public pages marked up with XFN or FOAF metadata (nodes). Like many others, I have accounts on Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, etc., which are all great sources to crawl for social graph edge relationships, but a number of [...]

Vox and OpenSearch
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Vox, the coolest blogging/social network release of the year, is also one of the OpenSearch friendliest. Byrne Reese, platform hacker extraordinaire over at Six Apart has posted a detailed article on how Vox is using OpenSearch as part of its platform API. Not only is the Vox implementation of OpenSearch text-book perfect, it also uses [...]