Real-World View of Location-Associated Social Data

A method comprising:

• maintaining, by one or more computing devices associated with a social-networking system, a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, wherein:
• the nodes comprise:
• a plurality of user nodes that are each associated with a user of the social-networking system;
• and
• a plurality of concept nodes that are each associated with a concept, and each of the one or more concept nodes is associated with a respective location;
• receiving, by one or more computing devices associated with a social networking system, third-party content objects;
• associating the third-party content objects with one or more concept nodes, respectively;
• receiving, by one or more computing devices associated with a social-networking system, a request from a computing device associated with a requesting user for social information, wherein the request comprises a request location;
• determining, by one or more computing devices associated with the social-networking system, a relevance score for each of the one or more concept nodes associated with respective third-party content objects and respective locations within a threshold distance of the request location;
• and
• based on the relevance scores, by one or more computing devices associated with the social-networking system, causing to be displayed on the computing device associated with the requesting user social-networking information associated with at least one of the third-party content objects associated with a concept node within a threshold distance of the request location, in conjunction with an image.

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

• maintain, by one or more computing devices associated with a social-networking system, a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, wherein:
• the nodes comprise:
• a plurality of user nodes that are each associated with a user of the social-networking system;
• and
• a plurality of concept nodes that are each associated with a concept, and each of the one or more concept nodes is associated with a respective location;
• receiving, by one or more computing devices associated with a social networking system, third-party content objects;
• associating the third-party content objects with one or more concept nodes, respectively;
• receive, by one or more computing devices associated with a social-networking system, a request from a computing device associated with a requesting user for social information, wherein the request comprises a request location;
• determine, by one or more computing devices associated with the social-networking system, a relevance score for each of the one or more concept nodes associated with respective third-party content objects and respective locations within a threshold distance of the request location;
• and
• based on the relevance scores, by one or more computing devices associated with the social-networking system, causing to be displayed on the computing device associated with the requesting user social-networking information associated with at least one of the third-party content objects associated with a concept node within a threshold distance of the request location, in conjunction with an image.

A social-networking system comprising:

• one or more processors associated with the social-networking system;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:
• maintain, by one or more computing devices associated with a social-networking system, a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, wherein:
• the nodes comprise:
• a plurality of user nodes that are each associated with a user of the social-networking system;
• and
• a plurality of concept nodes that are each associated with a concept, and each of the one or more concept nodes is associated with a respective location;
• receiving, by one or more computing devices associated with a social networking system, third-party content objects;
• associating the third-party content objects with one or more concept nodes, respectively;
• receive, by one or more computing devices associated with a social-networking system, a request from a computing device associated with a requesting user for social information, wherein the request comprises a request location;
• determine, by one or more computing devices associated with the social-networking system, a relevance score for each of the one or more concept nodes associated with respective third-party content objects and respective locations within a threshold distance of the request location;
• and
• based on the relevance scores, by one or more computing devices associated with the social-networking system, causing to be displayed on the computing device associated with the requesting user social-networking information associated with at least one of the third-party content objects associated with a concept node within a threshold distance of the request location, in conjunction with an image.