As it's my birthday today I bring you just one link but, a pretty important one.
Google's Social Graph API.
In the past I've written about microformats and some potential uses, but now along comes one of the biggest forces on the web with a way to start bringing all these pieces of content together.
Watch the video to see the basic premise behind this and then try not to think of things you could start doing with this. This also shows that Google has been looking closely at the code we've been putting out as developers...
We currently index the public Web for XHTML Friends Network (XFN), Friend of a Friend (FOAF) markup and other publicly declared connections.Now all of those bits and pieces of microformatted content such as reviews, events, etc. can start to (perhaps) rise in the Google rankings. If something is marked up as a review and it's from someone you know that should be higher in your desired results as some random result.
By using one of the tools already developed you can see who you are connected to. Here's the results for this blog.
As I said towards the end of 2007, I'm looking forward to the advances I thought would happen on the web - I just didn't think I'd see some of them this quick.
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