Comments on: Are Your Friends in Your Suitcase? http://www.centernetworks.com/data-portability-suitcase Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.centernetworks.com/data-portability-suitcase/comment-page-#comment-18447 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-18447 great point - the networks can come and go but with the suitcase idea you will never lose your friends - most people on the networks aren't real friends though. great point – the networks can come and go but with the suitcase idea you will never lose your friends – most people on the networks aren’t real friends though.

]]> By: Alex Hillman http://www.centernetworks.com/data-portability-suitcase/comment-page-#comment-18448 Alex Hillman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-18448 This is what XFN + the google social graph api are about. In fact, this is what data portability is about. There are already systems and standards in place for this, it's up to the applications to utilize them. Luckily, Twitter already employs this. Example? http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findcontacts.html?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Falexknowshtml%0D%0A Yes, this data feed is raw. But as Tantek pointed out to me, we're just waiting for someone to do something really cool to visualize it. But the reality is, since this data is already being indexed (by services that make it indexable), what we really need to be lobbying for is to get the services we love to employ these techniques. The suitcase is our identity. These connections are in the HTML, and can (and should) be indexed by as many services as care to spider the web. If, of course, we're willing to have it be indexed. And that should be OUR decision, not the webapp's. I look forward to someone taking the Social Graph API and doings something amazing with it. I was BLOWN away by the amount of information it returns, and even moreso, how FAST it comes back. It's complicated, so it's going to take some really smart people to do something cool with it. I hope one of them reads centernetworks.com And, for the record, Friendfeed isn't employing microformats, XFN, or any of the pieces necessary for this. Just sayin'. This is what XFN + the google social graph api are about. In fact, this is what data portability is about.

There are already systems and standards in place for this, it’s up to the applications to utilize them.

Luckily, Twitter already employs this. Example?

http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findcontacts.html?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Falexknowshtml

Yes, this data feed is raw. But as Tantek pointed out to me, we’re just waiting for someone to do something really cool to visualize it. But the reality is, since this data is already being indexed (by services that make it indexable), what we really need to be lobbying for is to get the services we love to employ these techniques.

The suitcase is our identity. These connections are in the HTML, and can (and should) be indexed by as many services as care to spider the web. If, of course, we’re willing to have it be indexed. And that should be OUR decision, not the webapp’s.

I look forward to someone taking the Social Graph API and doings something amazing with it. I was BLOWN away by the amount of information it returns, and even moreso, how FAST it comes back. It’s complicated, so it’s going to take some really smart people to do something cool with it. I hope one of them reads centernetworks.com

And, for the record, Friendfeed isn’t employing microformats, XFN, or any of the pieces necessary for this. Just sayin’.

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