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Google: Using smart links to find your friends

5:05 AM Sat, Feb 02, 2008 |
Andrew Smith   E-mail   News tips

Another day, another cool idea from Google. The Internet giant has just launched what it calls a social graph API, which doesn't sound all that interesting till you realize what it does.

Certain links between Web pages convey extra information, like a friendship between page owners. Google's API makes it easy for programmers to use that information to help social applications find your friends.

How can it do that? Watch the video for a pretty good layman's explanation.




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