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The Distributed Social Network How we free ourselves, right now. Ben Ward • http://benward.me • Social Network Portability WebCamp, Cork, Ireland • March 2nd 2008

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Ben Ward •[email protected] •Web Developer at Yahoo! Europe •Admin at microformats.org Hello…

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URL In the beginning…

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URL In the beginning… URL URL URL URL URL

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URL You Identity

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You Last.FM Flickr Facebook Y! Disparate Identity

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You Last.FM Flickr Facebook Y! XFN XFN XFN XFN Disparate Identity

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Making Claims You Flickr XFN Photos Homepage

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Last.FM Flickr Facebook Y! You Consolidated Identity

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You Contact Friend Friend Sister The Graph

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You Contact Friend Friend Sister The Graph

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•Friends, acquaintances •Contacts (‘following’) •Family (kin, siblings, parents, spouse) XFN Relationships

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You HTML The Information + + hCard

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You HTML The Information + + hCard Personality Profile Identity

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Contact Friend Friend Sister Ben The Network

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Contact Friend Friend Sister John Sarah Jeremy Alice Ben The Network

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•Use simple, powerful semantics •Crawlable data •Indexable data Consumption

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Google Social Graph API http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph

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•When I sign up, ask for my URL •Generate my profile from my hCard •Find my contacts from Google’s Social Graph API •Build my buddy list from those contacts already in your database •Save my time, make me happy. So, you want to build a social application?

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•Indexed profiles •Granular privacy, authorized access. Next developments