Profile About Page Links in the API I just went looking in the people section of the G+ API for access to and a JSON representation of the entries in the Links section of a person's profile and couldn't find anything. Am I looking in the wrong place or is it missing and this is a feature request? I'd expect something like this. "Links": [ "Other Profiles": [ { "Label" : {string}, "URL" : {string} } ] "Contributor to": [ { "Label" : {string}, "URL" : {string} } ] "Links": [ { "Label" : {string}, "URL" : {string} } ] ] This was prompted by yet another proposal for encoding a list of people's profile pages on other social networks, this time from Dave Winer. His use case is information about the author in RSS feeds. http://reboot.reallysimplesyndication.com/2013/07/28/implementingSomeNewRssIdeasInFargo ISTM the Google way of doing this would be to include a line <atom:link href="Google_Profile_URL" rel="[author,publisher]" /> in the feed but I couldn't then easily walk the list of associated profiles from code. BTW. I can't count the number of times we've been round this loop in the last 10 years. FOAF, Microformats, Facebook graphs, etc, etc, etc. Shame we have to keep re-inventing the wheel because none of them can get traction, adoption and interop.. Implementing some new RSS ideas in Fargo » I want to link my feeds to my Twitter and Facebook accounts. 2. Since RSS doesn't have this feature, I'll put it in a namespace. And I have to come up with a name for that namespace. Rather than be creative, I'll just call it alpha. The next group of features, if there is one will be in the beta ... [from: Google+ Posts] |
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