Build your online social graph

Mar 24, 2008

A few weeks back, Google released their Social Graph API – a JSON service that gives you access to Google’s information about your online presence. A C# wrapper is available for download at the bottom.

How it works

This video explains it better then I can:

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Try it yourself

For some strange reason, Google has only made the API available in JSON and that sucks if you want to use it from anything else than JavaScript. Since I wanted to use it from C# I built a small wrapper class that exposes all the features from the very simple API. You can try it yourself from the demo social graph page I wrote using the wrapper class. Just enter your blog URL in the input box.

Download

The wrapper is just a single small class that you can dump into your App_Code folder and you are ready to go. The demo web page is also included in the download so you can see how to use it. It’s just a single .aspx page.

socialgraph.zip (3.80 kb)

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Comments (7) -

Manu Temmerman-Uyttenbroeck

3/25/2008 5:28:28 AM #

Hi Mads,

I know you're not very fond of using external tools. But anyway. http://james.newtonking.com/pages/json-net.aspx

Ability to convert JSON to and from XML

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3/26/2008 2:57:04 PM #

I know that exist some aplications very good for this job. Can you tell me about someone?

Thank you

Denis

3/28/2008 4:20:40 AM #

here is a JavaScript example: http://www.servletsuite.com/socialwidget.htm

Juan

5/13/2008 6:16:30 PM #

Hi, I don't think I quite understand how this works... I use your demo page and get very few links, even though I have a few sites pointing in to my blog, and try to use XFN... in contrast if I enter your URL you have a lot of inbound, outbound, Verified claims, Unverified claims

Do you have any tips on how to improve this web of connections? Is it enough to use XFN in links and just wait for it to be indexed?

Thanks, I find your blog very interesting

Dan

5/14/2008 6:02:48 AM #

>Do you have any tips on how to improve this web of connections? Is it enough to >use XFN in links and just wait for it to be indexed?
should be indexed of course