Social Graph Foo Camp 2008
2008-02-01..2008-02-03
Sebastopol, United States
who it's for
platform engineers, api developers, product managers, identity protocol engineers, privacy engineers, mobile developers, social data scientists, startup founders
topics
Google Social Graph API; friends list portability; OpenID and OAuth integration; password-based contact import anti-pattern; email parsing for smart inboxes; directory of web APIs and mashups; blob storage with searchable index; Bluetooth proximity sensing and HMMs; TagMaps using Flickr tags; OpenSearch and Atom feed integration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Tim O'Reilly at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Tim O'Reilly | 02m |
Argues that social tools are becoming human augmentation for people who handle information floods and points to alpha bloggers who follow thousands of feeds… | ||
| Deb Schultz at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Deb Schultz | 03m |
Argues that average users can't parse current social-web jargon and need translations; names Fire Eagle and geolocation as concrete tool examples and contrasts… | ||
| Joseph Smarr at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Joseph Smarr | 03m |
Dense notes from Social Graph Foo Camp report that Google Social Graph API ships Friday and exposes public link data, while researchers at Facebook and Yahoo… | ||
| Nathan Eagle at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Nathan Eagle | 06m |
Gives out 100 phones running invisible logging software that records calls, SMS and continuous Bluetooth proximity, plus fixed Bluetooth beacons called blar… | ||
| Cameron Marlow at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Cameron Marlow | 05m |
Argues that combining communication traces creates a near-complete map of people’s important ties, claiming an amalgam of every phone call and every IM message… | ||
| Jason Titus at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Jason Titus | 06m |
Yahoo Mail claims a latent social network in 260 million users and plans to surface connections and context by extracting travel, receipts and topic signals… | ||
| John Musser at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | John Musser | 06m |
ProgrammableWeb runs a directory of APIs and mashups (2.5 years) and integrates with IBM’s QED Wiki so mashup builders can submit and retrieve assets via… | ||
| Terry Jones at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Terry Jones | 05m |
London startup builds a global storage and search stack combining a low‑level blob layer like S3 with an index that digs inside objects like Freebase meets… | ||
| Marc Davis at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Marc Davis | 06m |
Argues the mobile phone becomes the personal social hub and the social graph turns into infrastructure, enabling TagMaps that use Flickr-tagged photos to map… | ||
| Jeremy Keith at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Jeremy Keith | 05m |
Argues that the password anti-pattern is teaching users to hand over Gmail username and password to import contacts, citing Facebook Plaxo Dopplr and Twitter… | ||
| Niall Kennedy at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Niall Kennedy | 09m |
JavaScript uses browser styling to detect visited links via CSS/javascript and iterate a curated list of roughly 30–50 aggregator/bookmark targets to find… | ||
| Scott Kveton at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Scott Kveton | 06m |
A plan to make portable social identity concrete by wiring OpenID + OAuth integration into real apps and forming an umbrella Open Web Foundation that handles… | ||
| Chris Messina at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Chris Messina | 10m |
A project called dieso builds a distributed social network on WordPress that uses OpenID 2.0 and OAuth 1.0 to give individuals control of identity, friends… | ||
| Tantek Celick at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Tantek Celick | 07m |
Work on microformats started by encoding vCard and friend relationships into HTML so blogs can declare connections, and early XFN drafts get implemented within… | ||
| Renny Gleeson at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008 | Renny Gleeson | 05m |
Argues that federated stacks like XMPP federated import and identity pieces like OpenID reveal a core problem: social bits lose signals when pulled from… | ||
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