Just another node in the graph
On Friday, Google announced the launch of their Social graph API , which promises to take us another step closer to portability. They plan to crawl our connections across social networks where profiles are public. This data can then be ported by social application developers to provide users with the choice of picking their friends from a list presented to them, instead of having to build their network from scratch every time.
But the closer we step towards fully automated approaches to portability the more the ownership of this data becomes an issue. But that’s a discussion for another time. When I get my head around Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) and finally write about it.
But for now, I like where Google’s heading with this API
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