Chapter 10. The Future of Social: Defining Social Entities Through Distributed Web Frameworks

Expanding upon our exploration of online social graphs, in this chapter we will look at several protocols that are trying to change the face of social media and sharing. With a constantly expanding user graph, sites employing these protocols are now using comment sharing, pulling social references from URLs or email addresses, and trying to standardize actions users perform on a site to derive rich reference data. In this chapter, you’ll find out how.

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