Back in the early days of the Web, every document had at the bottom, “Copyright 1997. Do not redistribute.” Now every document has at the bottom, “Copyright 2008. Click here to send to your friends.”
–from an interview with Google’s chief economist, via flowingdata.org
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Hal Varian on information sharing
Google Visualization API – external datasources
You can now wire-in external datasources to Google’s Visualization API (see announcement). Previously, you had to populate the various UI widgets from Javascript or from Google-hosted datasources (such as spreadsheets). Their examples page shows some of the possible visualizations. My favourite are the Motion Charts, based on work acquired from the wonderful GapMinder project.
Posted in Technology, coding, ggg Also tagged data, gapminder, javascript, json, ui, visualization Leave a comment
Google Data APIs (and partial YouTube) supporting OAuth
Building on last month’s announcement of OAuth for the Google Contacts API, this from Wei on the oauth list:
Just want to let you know that we officially support OAuth for all Google Data APIs.
See blog post:
You’ll now be able to use standard OAuth libraries to write code that authenticates users to any of the Google [...]
OAuth support in Google Accounts and Contacts API
From Wei on the oauth list:
We are happy to announce that the Google Contacts Data API now supports OAuth. This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs. Please note that this is an alpha release and we may make changes to the protocol before the official release.
See announcement thread for endpoint [...]
Google Social Graph API, privacy and the public record
I’m digesting some of the reactions to Google’s recently announced Social Graph API. ReadWriteWeb ask whether this is a creeping privacy violation, and danah boyd has a thoughtful post raising concerns about whether the privileged tech elite have any right to experiment in this way with the online lives of those who are lack status, [...]
Posted in Activism, Essays, FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Politics, RDF, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Technology, ggg, privacy Also tagged danahboyd, FOAF, privacy, social graph, socialgraphapi, timoreilly, xfn 5 Comments