Notes.txt

Thursday, January 21 2010
   Features missing from Desktop Clients (that I am aware of):
      Which Lists/Groups have I been reading lately?
         List support seems to be missing altogether from Gwibber; Is on a qtwitter branch
      Which Links have I opened in the last 24 hours?
         Since last client start
      Who have I been Replying to lately?
         Which links have I been sharing?
      Who is the most active speaker in List/Group in the last 24/48/all-time?
         Who is the least active?
	 Exclude the most active
      What is the most active Tag/word/phrase/link in this List/Group
      Who is most often Replied to in a List/Group?
         Does one have to be Friends with both correspondents in order to see the '@' messages?

Wednesday, January 20 2010
   SocialSubGraph needs a UI and I need an open source collaboration
      Gwibber
         Python-GTK
	 GPL
	 Awesome unified view of Twitter, Facebook, and Identi.ca
	 Missing List and Friendship Creation/Destruction
	    Twitter List functionality has become really important to my use of the service
	    Want to add Friends and change List Membership
	       Both features exist in the Twitter API but neither exists in the program
	       Not sure about Facebook API (or the other services)
	       Not a feature in their roadmap (that I can tell from their launchpad)
	 Restricted to Desktop via GTK
      Qtwitter
         C/C++-Qt
	 Haven't fired this one up but need to see Qt in action
	 Also missing List and Friendship Creation/Destruction
	 Has embedded potential
	    Android uses Qt (to-do: confirm)
	 Becomes an excuse to use Boost Graph Library
	 Would rather write this in Python
	    Already have some code for SocialSubGraph
	    Believe PyQt is going to be an programming task than using C++ to create UI (Qt or any other)

Tuesday, January 12 2010
   Going to focus exclusively on Respondence
      Need a class that can drive socialgraph based on authenticated Twitter data
   
Wednesday, December 30 2009
   Should think on how to make use of Lists
      Following a List doesn't necessarily mean following every person in that List
         Will I Follow List Members individually after Following them via Lists? 
	 Would I follow any Individual if my Client(s) fully supported Lists? Hmmm...

   Lists could be used to seed Cluster Modularity calculations
      Would need a new definition for Relationship for SocialEdge

Wednesday, December 23 2009
   Probably going back to Twitter given limiations of Google Social Graph
      Google Social Graph is far more general than Twitter 
         however all Incoming Edges are of Type "me" 
	 IE are Identity Relations and therefore less interesting (for this purposes of this module)

   Thinking of Respondence as a different SocialSubGraph
      Twitter Social Graph Methods are not Authenticated
      Reponse could be a one-off e.g. a reaction to a hashtag search
         Might be interesting to know how often my Friends Respond to a Tweet but never Follow

Sunday, December 20 2009
   SocialSubGraph interface should be generalized to support both Google Social Graph API and Twitter Social Graph Methods
      "Node URI" from Google and "Friend/Follower ID" from Twitter could generalize to "Vertex ID" 
         except that iGraph already uses that concept
      	 Still, "Social Vertex" might be a useful concept where current 'uri' becomes 'identifier'

Wednesday, December 09 2009
   Definitely influenced by 'http://github.com/markpasc/giraffe/socialgraphapi.py'. Thanks Mark

Tuesday, December 08 2009
   iGraph provides for graph construction and analysis
      socialgraph needs to focus on analysis

   FlyGraph caches part of Social Graph
      import FlyGraph, Node from socialgraph

      # Create a Directed, Fly-weight Graph 
      graph = FlyGraph()

      # Retrieve/Get a Node
      # Under the hood:
      #   - Social Graph lookup with the given URI
      node = graph.populate_node("twitter.com/colgur")

      edges = graph.populate_neighbors(node, socialgraph.ALL)   

Monday, December 07 2009
   May find igraph functionality useful so should create proxies instead of derived classes
      import FlyGraph, Node from socialgraph

      # Create a Directed, Fly-weight Graph 
      graph = FlyGraph()

      # Create a Node.
      # Under the hood:
      # 	   - Query Google Social Graph: 'http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/lookup?q=twitter.com%2Fcolgur'
      #       - Attributes data held by new object
      node = Node("twitter.com/colgur")

      # Add Node to Graph
      # Under the hood:
      # 	   - Node is assigned Vertex ID
      graph.add_nodes([node])

      dfs_iter = node.dfs_iter(3)
      currentnode = dfs_iter.next()

      edgesin_iter = currentnode.edgesin_iter()
      currentedgein = edgesin_iter.next()
    

Sunday, December 06 2009
   My primary interest in python-socialgraph:
      import socialgraph

      node = socialgraph.Node(["twitter.com/colgur"])

      dfs_iter = node.dfs_iter(3)
      currentnode = dfs_iter.next()

      edgesin_iter = currentnode.edgesin_iter()
      currentedgein = edgesin_iter.next()