Semantic Web
Adding a Lifestream to Wordpress
Sometimes a new service comes around that you know is powerful but you have trouble finding an actual use for it. Two of those that I’ve recently been looking into are FriendFeed and Yahoo Pipes. By themselves they’re nothing, but once you have a goal in mind both become powerful allies.
Adding some kind of a [...]
Cloudshout Alpha 2 Released!
Over at IZEA there are a lot of balls up in the air at any given time. Lately Dan and I have been concentrating on a relatively new creation — CloudShout. It fits in nicely with the blog focused atmosphere for IZEA, and we’re both pretty excited about it. It already has a lot going [...]
Initial Google Apps Reaction
If you have a email address that forwards to your Gmail account you may have noticed some rather annoying delays this past week. Although I’m not sure if it’s a Google or a Dreamhost issue, the email source does point towards Google as the slow party in this race. The problem delayed some messages up [...]
Book 8: Microformats - Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
Don’t look here for books 6 and 7; I’ve very kindly decided to skip reviews of Harry Potter books. Instead we’re skipping straight to book 8 which more on target.
Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
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Haven’t heard much about Microformats? They are relatively new to the web, but use existing practices just marked up in [...]
Make Your Blog Easily Readable in 1 Hour
There’s one thing that usually bugs when trying to find new blogs to read and that’s a lack of direction. A lot of the time the user interfaces we take for granted in the often read blogs are far from utilized elsewhere (I admit I’m guilty of some things as well). Do you ever go [...]
Using hReview with Wordpress
Back in January I mentioned a hReview plugin for Wordpress that I’ve been using primarily for book reviews. But what exactly is hReview? According to Microformats.org:
hReview is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding reviews (of products, services, businesses, events, etc.) in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hReview is one of several microformats [...]
“New” Project - CFOpenID
Brian Rinaldi’s ColdFusion Open Source Update for this week linked to one new project I’m very interested in. CFOpenID, not to be confused with OpenID or the OpenID Actionpack for Model-Glue, is a new project released January 18th, 2007 which managed to stay under the radar. Unfortunately the example on their site seems to forward [...]
Problems with OpenID?
FactoryJoe.com has a great article about Problems with OpenID on Highrise that outlines some of the major issues with how OpenID can be implemented. There are quite a few straightforward issues, such as assuming the person registering owns the provided OpenID URL even without authenticating it, or not giving user friendly feedback that can save [...]
Microsoft to drop Passport for OpenID
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced official support for OpenID which was well embraced by quite a few people. Although Microsoft has always been one to lead the way, they’ve decided to help out one step more. As of today, all Microsoft Passport accounts also work as OpenID via Microsofts new “Live” initiative. This follows AOL [...]
OpenID Social Networking?
If you’re familiar with OpenID then ClaimID is a great place to start using it. I’ve mentioned ClaimID before, but if you’re not aware, it brands itself as the free, easy way to manage your online identity with OpenID. It’s a beutifully done interface complete with prototype Ajax magic, a well thought out interface and [...]
