Re: Facebok a leader of _federated_ social networking?

On 2 July 2013 19:25, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> On 7/2/13 7:29 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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>> >1. Their profiles are 5 star linked data.
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>> Looking athttp://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#x5-star-linked-open-data  I
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>> am not sure I agree with that...
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> I wrote a post about Facebook an Linked Data. Long story short, they
> produce 5-Star Linked Data via Turtle based documents [1] which are exposed
> via the Facebook Graph API.
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> Note, this is about authenticated access to structured data. The
> structured data is standards based, which is why it is correctly seen as
> "Open" i.e., the API based access controls aren't the basis for determining
> if its "Open" or "Distributed" since the data does indeed flow in and out
> of Facebook domains [2].
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> Links:
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> [1] http://bit.ly/NzfyF0 -- Facebook and Linked Data Bootstrap .
> [2] http://bit.ly/TLsQ4T -- Facebook and DBpedia Meshup (recombination
> enabled by standards based structured data representation).
>

Thanks Kingsley

It's something of a paradox that perhaps the most proprietary solution is
also the most federated!


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