Icons will help users quickly scan lists of social media sites. However, pulling favicons directly from sites is a lot more challenging than you may first think. Google have provided a simple API to do this. http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=flickr.com The only draw back I have found with using Google’s favicons API is…
The Ident Engine will accept 4 different ways of inputting a web account address http://twitter.com/glennjones twitter.com glennjones twitter glennjones glennjones@twitter.com There is currently a lot of discussion about finding the easiest way for a user to describe their ownership of a web account. Most systems currently provide a URL that…
As well as helping to manage the source code Google’s Code site provides a number of other features such as an RSS feed for change notification and an area to raise issues. In the future if people wish to contribute to the development of Ident Engine the site will enable…
I have post a screencast with video’s of the demo’s and synced audio from the podcast On Tuesday, I gave a skillswap talk about some of the experimental work I have been engaged in. For the last few months I have had a growing interest in the current data portability…
I have been doing some research work into the new Portable Contacts API. It’s designed to enable users to securely port their friend lists or address books from one site to another. Currently most social networking and address book sharing sites have their own proprietary contacts API’s. These API’s often…
OAuth is one of those technologies that when first understood makes your mind race with the possibilities. Authentication is a dry subject at the best of times, but OAuth shines not because the technology is cool, but because it has the capability to fundamentally change the way people use the…
I have been working on a concept for a new microformats test-suite. I need a comprehensive test-suite before I can move the development of UfXtract forward. Rather than just build something in isolation I thought it would be nice to find a way to share this work with the community.…
I spent this weekend at Semantic Camp learning all about RDF and speaking about parsing microformats. Although the focus of the event was very small, it attracted a nice group of people who were all passionate about open data portability in one way or another. I think I have a…
A couple of weeks ago Madgex had a visit from HM Revenue & Customs to review our PAYE tax payments. While in the office they informed us that providing cake on a Friday maybe a taxable benefit. We received this judgement by letter. “Friday cake The provision of cakes on…
As the ideas of social media extends into the design of many modern websites, the addition of user profiles and friend lists are becoming more common. So what is the best practice for making your social network data portable with mircoformats. Marking-up profiles and friend lists with mircoformats to any…