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Interview With Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate At Google Posted: 02 Apr 2009 03:16 PM PDT Earlier this week I had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Marks of Google about the current state of Friend Connect, OpenSocial, and the future of the social web. Friend Connect was initially seen as one of the methods for “out opening Facebook”. In other words Google was concerned about Facebook’s growing ownership of users’ identities on the web. While the initial steps were made for competitive purposes, OpenSocial has become part of a greater movement to simplify the models for sharing our social data around the web. Friend Connect, oAuth, Portable Contacts, and other standards have become core components of what is now called the open stack. Facebook has been taking an increasing number of steps toward opening up and has signaled that they may soon be willing to operate their services using the open stack. One of the latest steps was to joining the OpenID foundation board back in February. The standardization of the services running behind the scenes on the social web are still being developed including things like activitystrea.ms and DiSo. If you are confused about the standards don’t worry because all of this information will be taking place behind the scenes. All the users need to know is that standards will soon make it easier for all of our social activities to integrate with any service that is connected to the web. In my podcast with Kevin we talk about everything from the state of these open standards to what the future holds. Check out my interview with him in the player below! This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

OneRiot Expands with Twitter Web Index Search Posted: 02 Apr 2009 09:04 AM PDT OneRiot, the company looking to index the web in real time, has added a new Twitter search. At first glance, the new Twitter search on OneRiot doesn’t really look a whole lot different from Twitter’s own search. Type in a keyword and you’ll see all the related tweets and associated twitterers. Along the right-hand side of the page you’ll see the trend search terms, and at the top of the page you’ll be prompted to refresh the page in order to see how many more related tweets have come in since starting your search. What makes the OneRiot Twitter search different is the fact that OneRiot is indexing weblinks that are being shared via tweets. It’s an interesting perspective for web search, specific to Twitter and socially driven. For each link shared on Twitter, OneRiot will note the user who initially found it, how many tweets have shared it, and when it was last shared through Twitter. Such a feature offers yet another way in which to aggregate and comprehend data surrounding and being distributed through Twitter. What’s it mean for you? There’s yet another way to track the activity of your keywords of interest as they make their way across the web. Similar to services like TweetMeme, OneRiot is giving you an index of what’s going on in the Twitter web. What’s good about OneRiot’s implementation is that the Twitter searches can be related back to some of OneRiot’s other search features, which most recently includes real time video search. But the OneRiot Twitter search is still new and could use a couple of new features. While you can tweet a search result page, you can’t yet tweet an individual search result. It would make the OneRiot Twitter search features even more socially involved if you could retweet or reply to certain search results, or even see additionally shared links based on individual users that appear in these search results.

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