MyBlogLog API

Real Users, Real Data

Ian Kennedy

DNS service for people

• Avatar• Basic Demographics• Friends, Sites• Tags• Lifestream• 3rd Party IDs• RSS Out

MyBlogLog API

• In production today, real users, real data– member.find.byguid to map YID to MBL ID

• XML, JSON, Serialized PHP output• Public & Private Data

API Deets – Profiles “members”

• Lookup Members– By Screenname on mybloglog.com– By Screenname on 3rd party service– By Tag– By Yahoo GUID

• Info about Members– List Contacts– List Sites Joined– List Tags, Sites Authored, Recent Sites Joined– Messages– Lifestream

Sample Code

<id>2007072014210030</id> <nickname>Robyn T</nickname> <screen_name>robynt</screen_name><pict>http://F3.yahoofs.com/coreid/

46f31b9ci1dcazul1sp1/4jGPrJsjNbKMHbdQEXT3vTA-/1/tn48.jpg?ciAkOOHBfbly9NYo</pict>

<url>http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/robynt/</url> <profile> <age/> <sex>female</sex> <location> <city>San Francisco</city> <region/> <country>US</country> <zip/> <bio/> </location> </profile>

API Deets – Sites “communities”

• Lookup Sites– By Author– By Name– By Tag– List Members

• Info about Sites– Shared Members for two sites– Tags for a Site– Stats for a Site

Sample Code

<id>2005081115473684</id> <member_count>36972</member_count> <author_count>6</author_count> <name>MyBlogLog</name> <description>Know what engages your readers</description> <url>http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/mybloglog/</url> <site_url>http://www.mybloglog.com</site_url>

<pict>http://s3.amazonaws.com/buzz_sh/2005081115473684_sh.jpg</pict>

API Deets – Lifestream “New with Me”

• Lookup Lifestreams– By Member– By Member’s Contacts– By Member’s Tags “topics”– By Tags “topics”

Sample Code

<event> <name>delicious</name> <member> <id>2007040920150647</id> <nickname>Incubus</nickname> <screen_name>billy21</screen_name><pict>http://f3.yahoofs.com/coreid/47623229i15c6zul2sp1/

AJjnJfA7cqcCjYjr1l.CVwt1OgU-/101/tn48.jpg?ciAoq_HBQILY1cPb</pict>

<url>http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/billy21/</url> </member> <username>billy21</username> <title>Meteora Javascript Widgets</title> <url>http://meteora.astrata.com.mx/</url> <description></description> <topics>ajax javascript mootools tool tools web web2.0

widgets</topics> <created_at>2008-03-25T00:04:58-07:00</created_at> </event>

API Deets – OAuth methods

• community join

• messaging– send message– remove message– bulk community

message– report spam

• add/delete services• edit profile

– bio – page

• stats– daily summary– top referrers– top outgoing clicks– top pageviews

Sample Exercise

• Find user Tags– member.find.byscreenname– member.find.byid

• Find user Lifestream– member.find.byid– member.newwithme

• Find Site Description– community.find.byname– community.readers.list

Inspiration

Community Visualization

Inspiration – Quick Registration

Mobissiomo.com

Inspiration - BlogJuice

kentbrewster.com/blogjuice

Inspiration - FOAFster

kentbrewster.com/foafster

Inspiration – Simple Behavioral Targeting

Just For You @ WordPress

Tags = Web 2.0, mybloglog

Tags = Alameda, Japan

More Info

Site - mybloglog.com

Docs - hackday.developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog

Console - hackday.developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog/console.html