Using Opensocial to map 3rd person relationships
Posted to the Opensocial-Community group @ Sept 16, 2009 - OpenSocial Community > Using opensocial to describe the social network of a 3rd party
Hello all,
I apologize if the questions in this post has been addressed before. I was wondering if OpenSocial could be used, not to describe 1st person relationships (ie the quintessential Facebook profile), but to describe 3rd party relationships that had been discovered through research, freedom of information act requests, or some sort of machine-learned filtering.
I'm in the media/journalism business, and in the financial press, we need to keep track of who sits on who's board of directors, and the large number of C-level executive musical chairs that happens around us as industries goes through acquisitions and contractions.
I'd like to use opensocial to build a researcher's map of this type of social relations, sort of the linkedin profile that we as the public build for a particular person: the journalist's black book - open for all to see and all to fathom the consequences.
I can see this being a public good as well, when applied on our politicians, who come out of one bad senate assignment only to become the next chairperson of another obtusely named governmental body.
It'd be very interesting to see how far the social graph concept can be pushed when applied to the complexities of business executives or politicians.
Jonathan Lin
