Posts filed under “Identity”
Google are about to murder a good friend of mine
Let me start by saying the good friend is an API. Google have decided to close down the Social Graph API (SGAPI) on the 20th April 2012. I have spent the last couple of months thinking of a measured response, although I do somewhat agree with Jeremy Keith’s sentiment. “Dear Google, Fuck you. Signed, [...]
Proposal for using microformats to auto-fill forms
The current auto-fill browser extensions use regular expressions or previous user choices to work out how to automatically fill-in common registration forms. What we really need is a way to mark up forms semantically so that we can reliably auto-filled them using user selected structured data. Apart from obvious issues these applications also do not [...]
Ident Engine – WebFinger support
Published: 21 February 2010 10:23 I have added WebFinger support to Ident Engine. You can now enter a Google gmail email address as a starting point for searching someone social graph. This only works for email accounts who’s users have published a public Google profile page. Google’s profile pages are a good starting point to [...]
Codebits talk
I just given a talk at Codebits in Lisbon in which I explore the reuse of social media data using Ident Engine. I walk through how you can combine Google’s Social Graph API date with other open data sources like RSS and Microformats to provide a wealth information about your users. Re-using social media data [...]
Ident Engine
Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We have filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints. Ident Engine site A List Apart – Ident Engine The Ident Engine is part of a year long [...]