The World Is My Interactive Interface: Wrapping my head around f8 and Facebook's OpenGraph: The goal is to create a connected, mapped web that is more "social, personalized, smarter, and semantically aware."

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Wrapping my head around f8 and Facebook's OpenGraph: The goal is to create a connected, mapped web that is more "social, personalized, smarter, and semantically aware."

During the mid-2000s I took a few courses related to web-development and internet programming. This was before the twitterfacebookyoutube era. There's a lot of catching up to do.

Today, I'm watching a few videos from the recent f8 conference. It took place on April 21st, 2010 in San Francisco.

So what is f8?

"f8 is a Facebook conference where developers and entrepreneurs collaborate on the future of personalized and social technologies. At f8, members of the Facebook team and the developer community will explore a variety of topics including new tools and techniques, business growth strategies and open technologies." -Facebook

You can find more f8 videos by following the link below:
http://apps.facebook.com/feightlive/

Here are some tidbits of info from the first video:

The number of people using Facebook via Facebook on mobile devices is rapidly increasing.
More than 400 million people are on Facebook
One step permission is now available for developers and users, users will be clear about what permissions they are given.
New policy allows websites to store Facebook users' permission data beyond the previously imposed 24 limit.
Facebook is ramping up to handle monitory transactions: See http://developers.facebook.com/credits

During the first video, Open Graph is discussed:

"Open Graph puts people at the center of the web, becoming a set of personally and semantically meaningful connections between people and things".
Facebook maps out people and relationships of the online "social graph".
Pandora maps out musics, Yelp, small businesses.
News websites map out current events and news content
The goal is to create a connected, mapped web that is more "social, personalized, smarter, and semantically aware."

Somewhat Related:
Microsoft announced Docs.com the day of the f8 conference. The description is in the fourth video. It links with Facebook and was designed to be "social".

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The World Is My Interactive Interface

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Wrapping my head around f8 and Facebook's OpenGraph: The goal is to create a connected, mapped web that is more "social, personalized, smarter, and semantically aware."

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