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Graph API. How to recruit using Facebook Open Graph Search. Pearltrees Brings Your Interest Graph' to the iPad. One of the more buzzword-y buzzwords in Silicon Valley right now is the "interest graph," which is supposed to connect people and the topics that they're interested in. Lots of startups promise to tap into the interest graph, but Pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe says a new app from his startup is "maybe the first time you actually see an interest graph. " The new feature, which Lamothe variously describes as "visual discovery" (his pitch to the tech press) and "related interests" (what it's actually called in the app), is included in the just-launched iPad application from the previously Web-only company. Related interests have also been added to the Pearltrees website, but Lamothe is clearly more excited by the iPad version—he warned that the Web experience probably isn't quite as good.

That kind of self-deprecation from a startup CEO is a little strange, except that the Pearltrees iPad app is pretty impressive. Inside Search – Google. Knowledge – Inside Search – Google. Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings. Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. Take a query like [taj mahal]. For more than four decades, search has essentially been about matching keywords to queries. To a search engine the words [taj mahal] have been just that—two words. But we all know that [taj mahal] has a much richer meaning. The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query.

Google’s Knowledge Graph isn’t just rooted in public sources such as Freebase, Wikipedia and the CIA World Factbook. 1. 2. 3. 6 Gorgeous Facebook Visualizations. Like every complex network, Facebook offers unlimited possibilities of visual representation of the various connections between its users. We've chosen six beautiful visualizations that will awaken the (visual) geek within you. You don't have to stop at merely watching. Some of the visualizations on the list come with tools that you can use to create beautiful Facebook visualizations of your own with very little effort. Enjoy! Know of a beautiful Facebook visualization? Let us know in the comments! 1. This project visualizes all the data Facebook receives, on a global scale. 2.

This wonderful illustration, created by Lee Byron from the Facebook data team, shows how Facebook has evolved from being a social network for universities to the global social networking powerhouse it is today, with over 200 million users. 3. Friend Wheel is a simple Facebook application that creates a radial graph out of all your Facebook friends. 4. 5. Still images really don't do justice to this one. 6. Facebook Graph Search Review, How it Works Social Media Examiner. Facebook recently announced Graph Search. In this article I’ll share what Facebook’s Graph Search is, how it works and how it fits your marketing strategy.

What Is Graph Search? Graph Search is Facebook’s latest revision to the search feature that helps users find connections to people and places that have always existed in the graph. In a sense, it’s a clean interface into the breadth of Facebook data that people have entered into Facebook, but contextualized to each user. Watch this video introducing Facebook Graph Search. Think about that for a moment. Kudos to the Facebook engineering team for this major achievement. As you’ll see below, it’s early for Graph Search. But this first version gives us clues about how Facebook may evolve and the strengths on which they’ll try to build. Walkthrough of Facebook Graph Search Let’s start with a search about one of my favorite foods—bacon! In the screenshot below, you can see a search for “bacon” in the old Facebook search format. Who knew? 1. 2. 3. This Is The Social Graph Explained.

‎www.steigmancommunications.com/2013/08/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-twitters-interest-graph/ Have you seen the AT&T ad where little kids posit numbers bigger than infinity? (The ad is awesome, by the way.) These days, some social media platforms have their own versions of crazy numbers. A few examples: