Google launched yesterday an API for their index of current relationships that exists on the internet today, ie social graphs. The great move here by Google is that instead of just giving access to other social networks, they actually index the open standards that already exist today such as XHML Friends Network (XFN) and Friend of a Friend (FOAF). These standards are based on simple XHML markup that as microformats are integrated in the site as meta information which I think really is how the future will look. It will probably take pretty long before this hits big but it is definitely the right step towards Social Graph freedom and also a step towards the Semantic Web. See the video below of Brad Fitzpatrick explaining it all.
[update] Apparently since I posted this they fixed the problems...
Since yesterday when Zend released their first real version of Zend Studio for Eclipse (which I've been using ever since I found the beta, a must have for any serious php developer) their site have been quite slow and problems loading pages and so on. Today I figured they would have fixed it but when trying to reach their product site it was blank. Then I tried to just remove "/studio/" in their URL and I got the following:
Which I thought was rather funny considering that it is Zend we are talking about here. I mean, come on... its not that difficult to add a noRouteAction which could redirect to the correct place. If the makers of PHP have problems using their new platform (which also was released and also shows a white page) then how much problems am I going to run into?
I'm happy with the free beta of Zend Studio for Eclipse, and now I'm only waiting for the release of Zend Framework version 1.5 which include some really cool stuff.
