Social Graphing API

Google has released a Social Graphing API which follows XFN and FOAF links. This is very cool. Here is a short video on how it works.

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With the social networking boom there are many possibilities that open up through this API. Anyone have any ideas on what can be done with this or if anyone is currently using this API?

It would be very cool to put it in Kyle Sholz JsVis ProjectDemo, Tutorial.

Web Apps: The Future

Future of Web AppsDo TV news Executives really know that much about what is good on the internet and what is bad? In an article on Reuters entitle “CBS wants to buy the next YouTube, not Youtube”, Moonves states, Maybe we would look for the next YourTube, the next great idea that’s not spread across the world. He goes on to state that Murdoch’s News Corps, the owner MySpace, has made some good internet investments and some (they don’t mention any names) have made some poor ones.
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Facebook Follies

facebookI couldn’t sum up my thoughts on the facebook as good as Kevin Lim did. His post on the privacy of the news feeds in facebook is excellent. I agree with everything that states in this article. I haven’t seen many posts about why the news feeds are good and was thinking about it as a post today. However, now I don’t have to since someone already did.