Google’s Social Graph API Explained

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Social media junkie Alisa Leonard has a video of Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick, guru behind LiveJournal, Memecast and OpenID, describing the company’s Social Graph API which makes it easy to determine social connections on the web. It’s quite fascinating. If you like to know where your friends are and what they’re doing online, this API can help accomplish that.

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