The web is a very very rich platform, one that we’ll only just beginning to tap in that role. All too often people make things way to complicated. Which is why I am always fascinated by the simple stuff; projects like DiSo.
Today, Brad Fitzpatrick shows off (Thanks to Chris Messina for tweeting this) the Google Social Graph API, which builds on web standards, XFN and FOAF, to build a web of connections between people. I continue to wonder how we can use these approaches to connect scientific information using the web as our platform. It is also a reason why data portability and web standards are so important.
The web as platform: The simple stuff
The web is a very very rich platform, one that we’ll only just beginning to tap in that role. All too often people make things way to complicated. Which is why I am always fascinated by the simple stuff; projects like DiSo.
Today, Brad Fitzpatrick shows off (Thanks to Chris Messina for tweeting this) the Google Social Graph API, which builds on web standards, XFN and FOAF, to build a web of connections between people. I continue to wonder how we can use these approaches to connect scientific information using the web as our platform. It is also a reason why data portability and web standards are so important.
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