Facebook’s open graph in a nutshell

In the last 2 weeks, most of you would have heard about Facebook's new open graph concept, so what is it really about? Let me illustrate to you in a layperson's term.

Firstly let's look at some of the obvious changes that has already been set in motion, if you have noticed at sites like IMDB, ESPN, CNN and popular blog sites all over the net, there is this "Facebook like" symbol that has been put in place after every entry or article. This "Facebook like" symbol works the same as the one on Facebook, so upon clicking on it, a status will appear reflecting something like "Bob Daniel likes this" (be it a news article on CNN or a movie on IMDB).

There is more, if any your Facebook friends had already "like" this particular article of movie, you would be able to see it next to the "Facebook like" button, it will go something like "Denise wee and 15 others likes this".

Upon going back to your Facebook profile, you will see that on your profile page and subsequently your live feed, it will reflect the particular item you have just "like". This would then be viewed by all your Facebook friends and to top it off, let's say you were to "like" a movie on IMDB, Facebook will automatically add the movie to the list of your favorite movies on your info page.

Of course there are still many more implementations besides the "like" button, but to keep it short and simple, I won't really go deeper, but what does it really mean for the web and for us, the users? In accordance to Mark Zukerburg, The CEO of Facebook Inc, Facebook's open graph aims is to create an instantly social and personalized experience for web users all over the world, allowing a platform that places people in the center of the web.

By people, he simply means that this will put Facebook in the center of the World Wide Web, this open graph will then allow Facebook to pull in and connect the various different web graphs (i.e different web categories, societies etc.) to its ever growing social media platform. With an exponential growth in the number of Facebook users as well as the sites adopting Facebook's open graph being expected in the coming months, this will eventually lead to - More advertising dollars and control for Facebook, and in conclusion, it leads to - World Wide Web Domination.

The biggest conspiracy in the history of new and social media

If you have been following some sort of new/social media newsfeeds or tweets, you would probably have heard of the case of the misplaced IPhone 4G or some sites would put it IPhone HD, whatever the name is, Apple has this time pulled off one of the biggest publicity stunt ever in their own history or you might even call this "the biggest conspiracy in the history of new and social media"

Why do I think it's a publicity stunt or some big conspiracy by apple? let's just say this entire incident of an Apple engineer leaving his latest unreleased Iphone at a bar and it ending up with gizmodo; who in turn published photos of it to the entire world, all these looks too much like a well planned conspiracy.

As a result; it has got the entire new/social media community talking about it, let's just say the amount of tweets/retweets, blog posts and forums discussions on this missing Iphone have already reached a colossal level and it continues to rise, and isn't this what apple wants all along? Apple's PR have done it once again, this time they have reached a total new level in the shortest amount of time, stirring up a total shit storm and making gizmodo the unfortunate sorry ass decoy.(fyi, they actually paid a whopping USD$5000 to obtain that iphone)

Now that Apple wants the phone back, gizmodo is not just going to lose a USD$5000 phone, they might face a lawsuit from apple if Steve Jobs decides to sue.

And there is more, let me bring you to the attention the Hitler "Downfall" parodies that has been circulating on YouTube; isn't it too coincidental that of all time, the producers of clip had decided to have it take down at this time, after they made a spoof of it based on the missing Iphone; I mean spoofs of it had been made like all the time, and for years already, why take it down? And the real question is why now? after they spoofed the Iphone 4G?

And from all these series of events, the proud winner of the biggest conspiracy in the history of new and social media is "Apple's missing Iphone 4G"

The Internet of Things

Some of you may already be very familiar with the concept "Internet of things", but for those of you who don't , let me give you a lowdown on what this is all about, first up let's just do some imagining;

The alarm clock wakes you up at the right timing, you walk into your bathroom and the water temperature will be just right, without you having to adjust anything.

Then with a touch of a button, the coffee machine prepares your perfect cup of coffee, not too sweet…just the right taste.

Once you've stepped out of your house, the taxi arrives on time to send you to your destination.

All these and more, is the Internet of Things in action, so how does it actually work?

Well it all starts with you keying in details like your appointment time and location in your calendar which is linked to a central automated system; so upon your input, this will trigger off the series of actions that I've illustrated above.

The internet of things essential refers to the network infrastructure that had made these entirely possible, linking all our network enabled household devices together to this central automated system, in which we are able to configure to our own preference. In essence the Internet of things is the technology which allowes these devices to communicate with one another to make our lives easier.