Facebook’s Open Graph: The Future of the Semantic Web
Written by Martin Wong on April 21, 2010
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckberberg describing the open social graph at the F8 Conference today.
Today at the F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook took a huge step towards embracing the semantic web. The new Open Graph API and Protocol announced today may well represent the first serious threat to Google’s dominance of how people find content and navigate the World Wide Web.
In Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote speech, he talked a lot about the social graph and how if you map out the connections between people, you can see where and how we are all connected together. Facebook does a great job of mapping out our friendships but now they want to go further and expand into mapping our other connections: to companies, brands, music, films and any social “objects” we engage with as we navigate the web.
The idea is to “socialize” the web so that we can be more easily connected with content and products that we may find interesting. To facilitate this more social web, Facebook has announced 5 social plugins for use on websites.
How To Create Your Own Google Search Story Video
Written by Martin Wong on April 12, 2010
How To Create Your Own Google Search Story Video
Google has launched an interesting social media promotion called Search Stories Video Creator. Building upon the huge success of its Parisian Love commercial that was aired during the 2010 SuperBowl, Google is allowing its users to create their own search story videos.
Basically, to create your own Search Story video all you need is a few minutes of time. The Search Stories Video Creator allows you to input up to 7 searches using all of Google’s different search features like Images, Maps and Web Search. Then, you can choose a catchy song to go along with your video and the Video Creator generates a Youtube video in the same style as Parisian Love and other Google Search Stories. Read more…
