Facebook Open Graph
"We're building towards a web where the default is social" Mark Zuckerburg
Anyone who wants to understand the potential of the web should know about Facebook's Open Graph, which they shared last week at F8. The above video is one of four that cover the F8 keynote.
By the way, with 400 Million users on Facebook, maybe F8 should get as much attention from us as those Apple Keynotes.
In typical brilliance, ReadWriteWeb has provided what I think is the best write up of the announcement as yet. What it all means.
It's written by Alex Iskold, who has personally tried to get to the next level of semantic web potential with the development of abmeta - recognized as one of the best attempts thus far - and who humbly agrees that Facebook's answer is clearly leaps and bounds ahead of his own.
Read the article here http://bit.ly/dl6Bta
Some quotes worth pointing out here:
FACEBOOK APPEARS TO BE THE ONLY REPOSITORY OF DATA
"Technically speaking, what Facebook has done is elegant and correct. From markup, to plugins, to API, all of it is modern and awesome. The missing bit is that Facebook appears to be the only repository of data in this equation - and that makes the whole offering seriously closed. Publishers and users don't have a choice as to where to store the data. It is going to Facebook and Facebook alone. Perhaps there is a way to rework the system in a way that fixes that. We will look forward to see how this unfolds."
FACEBOOK COULD BE THE TASTE GRAPH OF THE PLANET
"Clearly this announcement is yet another turning point for Facebook. Before the conference Facebook was the biggest social network on the planet. If its vision actually happens, Facebook will be the biggest network of people and things on the planet- or to put it differently, it will be the taste graph of the planet."
