A Personal API
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A Personal API
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Re: A Personal API
#2This is so cool. Somebody should turn this into a platform - a mobile app that at least helps you record the stats you want, paired with an API platform that lets you grant and request permission for other "personal APIs".
Then other API calls can be built on top of individual people - College students in the US, citizens of India, etc. The possibilities are pretty endless.
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#3The FOAF crowd already did a lot of this style of work - see also http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DataSources ; you probably have a few data feeds already, particularly focused on social networking site activity.
Other vocabs work - ie, crschmidt's menow vocab.
Express it as json ld to make it more modern, and you have a distributed ecology of services that all talk the same sort of language, about you.
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#4This is so cool. Somebody should turn this into a platform - a mobile app that at least helps you record the stats you want, paired with an API platform that lets you grant and request permission for other "personal APIs". Then other API calls can be built on top of individual people - College students in the US, citizens of India, etc. The possibilities are pretty endless.
I'll bet you could get a lot of this information from something like FitBit.
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#5This is so cool. Somebody should turn this into a platform - a mobile app that at least helps you record the stats you want, paired with an API platform that lets you grant and request permission for other "personal APIs". Then other API calls can be built on top of individual people - College students in the US, citizens of India, etc. The possibilities are pretty endless.
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Sorry, maybe I'm being a bit facetious. There's definitely a lot of cool stuff that could be done with a personal API though. But how do you get people on-board? You have to have equipment to track/update stats right? Are people willing to buy into this potential network?
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#6I've actually been toying with the idea of having a private facebook account to hold all this data and more. Facebook's pretty much become the default social layer these days and almost every app can publish data to your news feed.
Facebook also has a pretty cool Timeline UI to boot which will probably only get better as time passes.
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#7I've thought about this many times before. But, this is the easy part.
Storing, doing simple metrics, making assumptions and returning the data is not a problem. Standardizing input methods is.
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#9I've actually been toying with the idea of having a private facebook account to hold all this data and more. Facebook's pretty much become the default social layer these days and almost every app can publish data to your news feed. Facebook also has a pretty cool Timeline UI to boot which will probably only get better as time passes.
I'm starting to think this is a really great idea - to have somewhere to keep a private personal history - particularly for checking in to keep a track of where I've been without appearing to be a self-important moron. You know who you are FB friends!
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#10That's pretty cool!
As an engineer, I crave data. As much as anything, this process would force me to organize that data into some archivable, more useful form.