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Re:From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind B... by nbaumann on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:44AM (#2350199)
SQL-style queries of any social network? Where do I sign up?
Re:From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind B... by mindcrime on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:52AM (#2350234)
Sadly it would be fairly trivial to do that if social networks standardized on something like FOAF; which would make it possible to just use SPARQL for queries. Of course figuring out how to deal with the privacy implications would be an impediment, but the basic querying would not be a big deal. Mapping identify across domains would also be a challenge without some sort of common identifier, or explicit mapping declaration(s), but it could be done.

Nobody (well, almost nobody) does it though. FOAFspace is practically a barren wasteland compared to what it could be. All the social networks hide whatever access they do allow, behind proprietary APIs at best. :-(

Re:From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind B... by dpritchett on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:10PM (#2350323)
Facebook has FQL and Yahoo has a YQL console that's wired up to lots of different sources: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
Re:From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind B... by nbaumann on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:06PM (#2350559)
Yeah, I've diddled around with it and it's great. Would love to see it hooked up into more services though.
Re:From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind B... by orionlogic on Monday March 21, 2011 @03:55PM (#2351271)
Those are great but still not for prime time usage which means not ready for dummies.
Re:From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind B... by jamii on Monday March 21, 2011 @02:54PM (#2351073)
This is the aim of Locker: https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker