Using Tabulator to link to Facebook in Chrome

The following is a simple demonstration of the web version of tabulator being used to link to a facebook profile.

Click the following link in CHROME (it may work in other browsers too)

http://demo.data.fm/demo_facebook

*Disclaimer* very much alpha / work in progress of a port of tabulator functionality to the web.  Some parts may be broken in some browsers, some parts may be broken in all browsers.  We’re working on fixing and much more, including an almost built social interface, probably Q2 of 2012 …

1. If you managed to get it working you should see something like

2. Now try clicking on “hugh.glaser”

Nicely structured Facebook data!

3. You can even explore facebook predicates

And the ‘code to generate’ all this?  ONE line of turtle!

<#me> <#KNOWS> <https://graph.facebook.com/hugh.glaser> .

Is it perfect?  NO.

Can we make it awesome?  YES! 🙂

With almost a billion profiles, facebook is winning the race to adopt linked data.  It’s a testament to their implementation that I had to do very little and everything ‘just worked’.

There’s no other integration in the social web anywhere near as seamless as this.  IMHO it has the potential to usher in a new era of the Web, so long as we manage to keep the momentum of the web of documents and linked data going for long enough!