Glenn Jones discusses how to connect social media with open standards by: 1) Adding microformats and RSS/Atom to sites to standardize formats 2) Designing URL structures to be RESTful 3) Adding OAuth authentication to password-protected content for access control 4) Considering discovery standards like XRD to expose APIs and services The talk outlines how chaining these open standards together provides more value than individual parts alone.

1. How to connect social media
with open standards
Glenn Jones
Social Web Foo Camp
18 April 2009

2. lab.madgex.com

3. How the your Social Graph is built
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4. Open Standards Stack
Microformats Parser
Google’s Social
RSS Library
Graph API
microformats
ATOMOAuth
Library
Social Graph
Node Mapper
Digest Access Authentication

5. Social Graph Node Mapper
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/
sgn://flickr.com/?ident=glennjonesnet
profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/
content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/
rss: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/...

6. priority: 20
schema: hAtom
content type: status
resource: list
action: read
authorisation: anonymous
mime type: text/html
verb: get
url-template: http://twitter.com/{username}/

7. XRD discovery is on its way
<XRD>
<Subject>http://twitter.com/</Subject>
<Link priority=“10”>
<Rel>profile</Rel>
<Type>http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard</Type>
<Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/contenttype/profile</Type>
<Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/resoucetype/item</Type>
<Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/action/read</Type>
<Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/verb/get</Type>
<Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/authorisation/anonymous</Type>
<URITemplate>http://twitter.com/{username}</URITemplate>
<MediaType>text/html</MediaType>
</Link>
</XRD>
Conceptual outline of XRD-Based service description.
To find out more about XRD read Eran Hammer-Lahav blog hueniverse.com

8. Open Stack
Social Graph Search Web wide discovery
SGN or XRD Site API/Services discovery
URI Templates URL description
Basic or OAuth Authentication & access
Microformats/RSS Standard formats

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12. Chaining open standards
together provides massively
great value than the
sum of the parts

13. 1
Add microformats and
RSS/Atom to your site

14. 2
Make sure your URL design
is RESTful

15. 3
Add OAuth to all your
password protected
RSS feeds and web page

16. 4
Think about discovery

17. Microformats Parsers
Blog
http://microformats.org/wiki/parsers
http://www.glennjones.net/
Microformats Parser - Optimus - XSLT
Madgex Labs
http://microformatique.com/optimus/
http://lab.madgex.com/
Microformats Parser - Cognition - Perl
UfXtract
http://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/
http://ufxtract.com/
Google Social Graph API
Backnetwork
http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/
http://lab.backnetwork.com/
Social Graph Node Mapper
http://code.google.com/p/google-sgnodemapper/
URI-Template
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-03
YQL
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
Portable Contacts API
http://portablecontacts.net/

18. XRDS-simple
http://xrds-simple.net/core/1.0/
LRDD
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-03
Eran Hammer-Lahav
http://www.hueniverse.com/

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