{"id":488,"date":"2008-02-02T03:34:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T00:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flashcolony.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2008-02-02T03:34:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T00:34:24","slug":"google-introduces-social-graph-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/google-introduces-social-graph-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Introduces Social Graph API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the title says, Google has released a new Social Graph API that reads public data from different social web sites and links the relations between people in the web. Basically, Google crawls between people&#8217;s relations and connections which is available in public personal data anywhere in the web, then it will find <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FOAF_(software)\">FOAF<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gmpg.org\/xfn\/intro\">XFN<\/a> relations or any other way of connections as Google says.<\/p>\n<p>So if I&#8217;m your friend, and you&#8217;re a friend of person B, and person B adds person C in his blogroll then Google Graph API can tell me that I have a connection with person B and also C whether that connection was found directly or indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>This video explains it:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LabCylbapuM&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LabCylbapuM&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the title says, Google has released a new Social Graph API that reads public data from different social web sites and links the relations between people in the web. Basically, Google crawls between people&#8217;s relations and connections which is available in public personal data anywhere in the web, then it will find FOAF and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}