Google Social Graph API released

Google Social Graph API released

Google has made available the Google Social Graph API which has been designed to enable developers to code applications which can link up people on the Web.

This API has been developed to take information from publicly declared relationships from web users and make it available to these new applications.

This means that these APIs would prevent the hassles of members of a new services to redevelop their entire network of friends.

Google engineer Brad Fitzpatrick wrote in a blog post about this new API: “So you’ve just built a totally sweet new social app and you can’t wait for people to start using it, but there’s a problem: when people join they don’t have any friends on your site. They’re lonely, and the experience isn’t good because they can’t use the app with people they know. You could ask them to search for and add all their friends, but you know that every other app is asking them to do the same thing and they’re getting sick of it. Or they tried address book import, but that didn’t totally work, because they don’t even have all their friends’ e-mail addresses (especially if they only know them from another social-networking site!). What’s a developer to do?”

checkout: Google Social Graph API