f8: Facebook Touts 'Open Graph,' Connects With Smaller Sites | N
At its f8 developers conference Wednesday, Facebook introduced the next iteration of its core platform, what chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called the "open graph." The idea, Zuckerberg said, is to connect the social graphs compiled by individual sites such as Yelp or Pandora and combine them to create a larger, more social picture. The company unveiled a slew of feature enhancements and new APIs to make that happen. One casualty: the Facebook Connect brand, which will be replaced by the OAuth 2.0 protocol as an external login mechanism. One partner will be Microsoft, which launched docs.com as a Web publishing and possibly editing site that ties into Facebook. The first f8 Facebook introduced the concept of connection with people in a massive graph, Zuckerberg said, and then other objects, such as businesses and bands. As expected, Facebook introduced its "Like" button, and used it as an API to send social data directly from Facebook.
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To Facebook the answer must be no.
I am very familiar with the Friendfeed API, so when I saw the presentation today by Bret Taylor, who is now one of the leading guys at Facebook, it felt very familiar. They design clean and simple APIs. This one is no exception. I would be playing with it right now except for two things: 1. 2. This is the problem with corporate platforms and the standard bodies that help them achieve their goals. Anyway, once you get past the political stuff, Bret and his guys implement a nice API. Watching his presentation I was struck with an idea. The actual Bill Gates figures in this story. So now we know what Zuckerberg's megalomania is, and he's brilliant, and hired the right guys (the FF team) to make it happen.
Plugin Wordpress Facebook Like : WP FB Like this | Le Journal du
English version below ↓ Facebook a annoncé la semaine dernière l’évolution de son fameux bouton “J’aime” / “I like”. Effectivement, cette option était jusqu’à présent disponible uniquement sur la plateforme. La grande nouveauté est que vous pouvez ajouter ce bouton directement sur votre site / blog. Ainsi, dès que votre lecteur aime un article, il peut le faire savoir à toute sa communauté grâce à un simple clic. Version courante : 0.3 Nouveau ! Afin de faciliter l’intégration de cette nouvelle fonctionnalité, nous avons mis en place un plugin WordPress. La partie Facebook n’est pas nécessaire ni disponible pour le moment, passez directement à l’étape WordPress, ci-dessous. Première partie : côté Facebook Commencez par créer une application pour votre blog. 2ème partie : la partie plugin, c’est simple : A savoir : quand vous allez “aimer” un article, cela apparaîtra sur votre mur sous cette forme : Voilà quelques captures (merci à Marion pour avoir béta-testé la bête) : English version
Facebook F8: One graph to rule them all | The Social
SAN FRANCISCO--Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the company's F8 developer conference on Wednesday to unveil what he said is "the most transformative thing we've ever done for the Web." It's called the Open Graph. There was no introduction: Zuckerberg just walked onstage in jeans, sneakers, and a black hoodie and started talking about Facebook's past F8 launches. In 2007, it was the original Facebook Platform. In 2008, it was Facebook Connect. There are now more than 400 million people on Facebook, four times as many as there were the last time Facebook held an F8 event. Zuckerberg's first announcement was "a couple of important policy changes" to Facebook's platform, which first combine all of the various permissions a user must grant a third-party app or Connect partner into a single one-click process. Next, those permissions will also be more permanent. This is something that will go far beyond the "news feed" structure that Facebook pioneered several years ago.
40+ Things You Need to Watch in 2011
If the popular misreading of Mayan mythology is correct, we have fewer than two more years left on this Earth. That leaves precious little time for the tech industry to develop and perfect of all the cool technologies that sci-fi authors have dreamed up over the years. Still, while a December 2012 apocalypse may spell doom for the commercial viability of hovercars, it doesn't mean that the next couple of years in tech will be dull — quite the contrary. 2011 is already shaping up to be a banner year for tech and web innovation. Below is a list of over 40 websites, apps, companies, gadgets and technologies that the editors of Mashable think that you should keep an eye on over the coming year. None of them let you zoom through the air over traffic, but they're definitely all worth a look. Be sure to click through to each article to see our full write ups on individual entries, and let us know in the comments what you're looking out for in 2011. 10 Websites to Watch 10 Apps to Watch
Facebook Presence: Location At f8 Through RFID
Today at Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, the company have given all attendees a small RFID tag attached to their conference badge. This tag is a part of something called “Facebook Presence” which allows you to “check-in” at various places around the conference simply by swiping your badge. Yes, it’s location. This is actually the same thing Facebook uses for its infamous keg bot at its headquarters. While we’ve known for a while that Facebook would use QR codes as a part of its location strategy, it’s not clear if this is actually something Facebook plans on using more widescale.
Le Community management vs. la démocratie
Ça fait quoi, deux-trois semaines que je suis sur Quora ? J’en avais entendu parler longtemps avant vous, parce que je suis super branché, mais à l’époque il était très difficile d’obtenir une invitation. Aujourd’hui c’est assez facile, le nombre d’inscription a explosé depuis décembre environ et après les articles "Quora va-t-il détrôner Twitter ?" (vous vous rappellez des "Twitter va-t-il détrôner Facebook ?" C’est un problème que connaissent tous les sites à succès : un jour, pour grandir, il faut poignarder les early adopters dans le dos. Un site comme Sens Critique souffre dans une certaine mesure du même genre de problème : on vous en a chanté les louanges avec Fifi_ quand c’était un petit club fermé, aujourd’hui on aime encore beaucoup le site mais il n’est plus tout à fait aussi fun qu’au début avec la masse d’inconnus qui l’a envahit. Qu’est-ce que c’est qu’un power user ? Le community management permet de répondre à ces problèmes de tout un tas de façon. Like this:
