Google Launches Social Graph API
Once again, Google makes Microsoft look stupid for buying Facebook stock at Zuckerberg’s ridiculous price. They just launched a social graph API that allows developers to harvest relationship data not just within social networks, but across the open Web through XFN and FOAF.
OpenSocial for widgets, and now Social Graph for relationships: Google is building a suite of APIs to blow social networking out of information silos and wide open across the Web. As demonstrated by Facebook banning Scoble for harvesting his own social graph, that openness is Zuckerberg’s worst nightmare.
January 1 TCP/IP
On January 1, 1983, 400 computers on ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, hooked up to each other using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
Twenty-five years later, TCP/IP powers the modern Internet. Google marks this important anniversary with a very special Google Doodle.
The confetti at the bottom forms the words SYN SYN/ACK ACK — synchronize, synchronize/acknowledge, acknowledge — the three-way handshake of a TCP/IP connection.
Twenty-five years after that first historic handshake, the world is connected. May 2008 bring you even more heartfelt handshakes and meaningful connections.
