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Google Implements Social Graph API and hCard in Profiles

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Aug 29, 2008

Summary

this February, Google released its Social Graph API, which allows developers to give users the option to easily find data on their social connections around the web. Google itself, however, hasn't really implemented any of this technology yet. Starting today, however, it seems Google is starting to surface some of this information from your Social Graph in your Google Profile, which might be a first sign that Google is planning to do more with these profiles than it has done so far. Google has also started implementing the hCard microformat there. The first person to noticed this was Chris Messina.

Google's Social Graph API harnesses this information from XFN and FOAF data that is published by Wordpress, Twitter, or any other social network or blog that wants to implement these open standards.

Once you open your Google Profile, you might start seeing some suggested links at the bottom of the page (as usual, it seems Google is rolling this out slowly) and, as far as we can see, these links are pulled from your Social Graph. If you don't see anything there, you

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Comments (3)

Nishith,

Aug 30, 2008

You can also see this in action on your socialmedian Settings page.

Charlesheflin,

Aug 30, 2008

This is further evidence that Google is planning to turn the Internet into the largest social network in existence. They are leaving breadcrumbs everywhere.

Plasmaegg,

Aug 31, 2008

wonder if this couild be used in enterprise sense - looking for something that will allow social network mapping... without doing the questionaire :-)

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