“These connections aren’t just happening on Facebook, they’re happening all over the Web, and today with the Open Graph we’re bringing all these things together,” Zuckerberg said.
This is the 3rd year for F8 and things could have not went better. Every year, Zuck showcases FB’s most recent cool things. This year’s F8 breaks down to 3 simple objectives:
- Open Graph
- Instantly Social
- Simple Platform
OPEN GRAPH PROTOCOL
Open graph is a unique way for the developers to build this new society. Think of what twitter did for the semantic web, but more sweet!
Facebook’s Bret Taylor also just announced the Open Graph protocol, a new way of structuring data on the web with semantic markup. For example, represents the movie “The Godfather”. When that object is marked up on a website, Liking it will place it in the right place on the user’s profile, and mousing over it in the feed will show a hovercard that links to the source object off Facebook.com – for example, IMDB.
In addition, publishers who use the Open Graph markup will be able to publish updates to users after they Like the object on their site. More details on that shortly.
Graph API
Finally, with the Graph API, developers will able to get information on any object in the Facebook graph. With the Open Graph, each object has a unique ID. You can download the JSON representation of any object in the graph simply by going to:
http://graph.facebook.com/[ObjectName]/[ObjectType]
where ObjectName could be a user or Page ID (like PrinceBoucher or FollowThePrince), and ObjectType could be photos, videos, notes, etc.
This is going to be simple because of their initiative to use OAuth 2.0! Now you ask, what is this? Just another programming language that is more simple. Let us compare it to English or Spanish in relation to Latin.
So Enslish is to OAuth 2.0 as Latin is to PHP. Does that help?
Instantly Social
Social Plugins are the name of the game. Forming connections through META data will form new experiences during your engagement . Imagine when you enter IMDB, Pandora, or Amazon and you are being referenced your network, in convergence with all the data on the website to best qualify what you might like. Cool eh? They basically took the Google Docs idea and made it more social. Like really social. Also, imagine or just go to Pandora and see the seamless connection to how you relate to certain music. Pretty sweet!
Simple Platform
Another facelift to create more efficiency and productivity for the communications between networks and node’s. People might be pissed, but don’t we all thank our parents for setting presence sometimes?
“We’ll serve 1 Billion Likes on the internet in the next 24 hours”
“The world can be a lot better and we are going to make it that way.” - Mark Zuckerberg
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
New Creative Digital Group Optimizes Social Media to Help Sexual Abuse Survivors
Tackling what isn’t sexy.
Los Angeles, CA/April 20, 2010 — Prince Consulting & Services announces the launch of Follow the Prince (www.followtheprince.com), a one-stop shop for myriad social and digital media marketing needs. Follow the Prince (FTP) combines creative marketing tactics, social media smarts and entrepreneurial principles to provide businesses with the tools, ideas and support required to develop and spread their unique brands. The group assists entrepreneurs, established businesses and individuals in becoming highly visible to their audiences.
The Angela Shelton Foundation is a non-profit organization that teaches sexual abuse survivors how to heal and lead joyful lives. Collectively, they converse about thewhite elephant in 27% of living rooms in America. FTP and the Foundation have released a bevy of tools for social conversation about the truth of sexual abuse. Initiatives include encouraging survivors of sexual abuse to change their profile picture to one depicting themselves at the age at which they were abused and a centralized blog that various survivors are able to share their experience.
More than being cathartic, the Foundation believes that the only way to eradicate sexual abuse is to remind every survivor that no one can make himself or herself a victim. Currently there is a growing blog network, The Survivor Manual, organized by the Foundation and powered by Follow the Prince to allow survivors to reach out and grow with other survivors who are apart of the community, that they may not have otherwise known. These are a combination of outreach & social media marketing services implemented by FTP.
Christopher Prince Boucher from FTP realized that perpetrators were infiltrating seemingly save havens. They provided custom solutions and tools to train the Foundation’s Army of Angels to diffuse the power of ambient lurkers and teach the survivors critical tactics in Speaking Up and Speaking Out. This was an Outreach Package that has been a staple service and why brands like BermanBraun and Angela Shelton have Followed the Prince.
Shelton is Following The Prince and his techniques by producing a weekly instructional and inspirational live USTREAM to help survivors inspire and empower their lives. She covers topics from “how to find your voice through blogging” and “setting up a safe twitter presence”, to how to deal with reoccurrence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Follow The Prince has facilitated these practices through their Social Media Marketing services.
About Follow The Prince
Follow The Prince honors integrity, sustainability, and the community growth. Because we understand the diverse nature of relationships, we work with various individuals, small business and corporations. Our clients include entrepreneurs, technologists, entertainers, and activists. We believe that the use of social strategy is the best way to engage humans and technology in order to benefit unique brands.
Contact:
media@followtheprince.com
Contact:
Christopher Prince Boucher
p: 646.727.0530 | e: chris@followtheprince.com
www.followtheprince.com
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Since this is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Follow The Prince & The Angela Shelton Foundation have been working on several ways to provide awareness, recognition, and support for the SAAM community. Their solutions ignited the following:
- Changing Avatar to age of abuse
- Outreach in community boards to sweep perpetrators
- Story-telling via twitter
- Online Art-Auction for art
- Army of Angels Blog-A-Thons
- Live-Streaming Fundraiser Event
Leading up, Angela will be speaking at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conference in NYC. Where she will tweet her speech in real-time on how 1 tweet can make a difference. Then starts The Angela Shelton Twitter Week which is a time to share stories of healing and transformation. We will follow 3 powerful stories of male and female survivors for the whole week.
Angela Shelton will start us off during her live Sunday Show on April 24th and recap on the following Sunday.
We will be using the hash tags
#NEVERAGAIN
#ITOLD
#ASDAY10 for Angela Shelton Day 2010
#AOA for Army of Angels
Follow @angelashelton @survivormanual and @thearmyofangels
This event is free to be a part of Angela Shelton Day but to get an official Angela Shelton Day Twitter Ticket - give whatever you can to support the foundation. No need to buy a ticket if you don’t have the money. Twittering is free!
To follow up and extend this into May, which is my birthday month 
, The Foundation is having an auction, dance party, live music, live art, and fundraising! Please donate to the event and join us on Eventbrite.
