Re: social APIs -- any additions from your part of the world? HELP!

Thanks a lot, Bede! And to your colleagues as well.

A 'gender' tag... I wouldn't have thought of that!

Ann Bassetti
From: Bede McCall
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 5:18 PM
To: Bassetti, Ann
Reply To: bede@mitre.org
Subject: Re: social APIs -- any additions from your part of the world? HELP!


Ann, I forwarded your request to my internal MITRE mailing list and started seeing responses in about 2 minutes.

The distillation of the thread was this pair of references, from John Henderson.  MITRE was working on Human Language understanding tech years before I started here (1988) so it's not news that they've looked at a few social network APIs along the way.  To motivate the discussion I suggested a scenario that MITRE is asked to use as a vehicle every so often:  a multinational military or foreign aid operation.

Hope this is helpful, although I imagine the Working Group already knows about Weibo. If you'd like to follow up with John, let me know and I'll introduce you.

--Bede

From: Henderson, John C.
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:01 PM
To: [...big list of names...]
Subject: Re: social APIs -- any additions from your part of the world? HELP!

  Ah, it occurs to me that it is all here:

http://open.weibo.com/wiki/API%E6%96%87%E6%A1%A3_V2/en

  and

http://open.weibo.com/wiki/OAuth/en

  You'll note that the first API is almost exactly the same as Twitter. The second API - the authentication - requires lots of registration - it predates Twitter's use of oauth, and will likely vary from it.

  In our experience we found the Weibo was a clone of twitter to the extent that the field names had common typos. The main difference was the addition of a "gender" tag to each user field. It would mirror whatever the user put into his/her user profile page under gender. But that's not a big enough deal. For WC3, linking those two pointers should be plenty.

-John
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