In my February roundup I mentioned the Google Social Graph API, well the AltioLive development team decided to go ahead and put a demo together. It can be found at http://tinyurl.com/64dkc9. Jim has also made a mention about the app in his blog entry "Google Social API demo in AltioLive".
The only comment I have is that blogger blog's seem to be difficult to analyse. IMHO this is strange because Google Social API and Blogger are both Google products. So if you enter http://thompson-web.blogspot.com/ not a lot happens but if you enter http://www.heychinaski.com/blog/ it does just what's expected and finds a social network. I suppose it could be argued I have no social life which is why no network appears for me, :-)
NOTE: The tinyurl mentioned above may no longer point to the demo in the future as he demo may only be available through the Altio website
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Thanks for the link, but you missed off the 'l' in html in the link.
sorry about that. have corrected the linke
It's not your social life Gary!
The trouble is that your blogging service, even though it is operated by Google, doesn't use the markup (XFN and FOAF) necessary to support another one of their services; the Social Graph API.
Within the blog roll on my site you'll see attributes like this : rel="friend met co-worker colleague" in the "a" tags where I link to other people. If you can change the HTML that Blogger renders by hand then you can fix this. Otherwise you'll have to wait until they decide to support these microformats.
Even WordPress blogs don't support XFN by default, you have to know to tick the right boxes.
I've changed my Blogger blogroll to use XFN by ditching the pre-built component and just dropping in a custom HTML component that you can hand craft to include the 'rel' attribute.
So try that and see if the demo shows that you have friends now :-)
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