Build critical mass on your website

With so many websites to join, users must decide where to invest significant time in adding their same connections over and over. For developers, this means it is difficult to build successful web applications that hinge upon a critical mass of users for content and interaction. With the Social Graph API, developers can now utilize public connections their users have already created in other web services. It makes information about public connections between people easily available and useful.

Only public data

The API returns web addresses of public pages and publicly declared connections between them. The API cannot access non-public information, such as private profile pages or websites accessible to a limited group of friends.

Based on open standards

We currently index the public Web for XHTML Friends Network (XFN), Friend of a Friend (FOAF) markup and other publicly declared connections. By supporting open Web standards for describing connections between people, web sites can add to the social infrastructure of the web.

Make Friends on Webshots!

Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be about just romance—after all, many dread the explosion of candy, cards and overly affectionate couples.
Make this Valentine’s Day about finding a new friend on Webshots instead! When you’re browsing the site and you find a member you like, just click on the “make friends” icon and an email to them will pop up. Write a little hello and let them know why you want to be friends.
Click to see the “make friend” icon:


Friends with Benefits
Friendship is a gift in itself, but you get extra benefits with your Webshots friends:

• Print and make gifts with your friends’ photos and videos!*
• See the latest photos and videos from your friends on the Webshots homepage.
• Get cool comments on your photos, albums and message board.

We just updated the Webshots store interface, so now you can choose which friends’ photos you want to load to order prints and gifts of, making the process much faster.
Click to see the new interface:

Here’s to a happy Valentine’s Day filled with lots of valentines from all your friends!
Love,
Webshots