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{ Monthly Archives } January 2008

Travel/Conferences this winter and spring

In case either of you reading this want to catch me while I’m in your neighborhood…

Social Graph Foo Camp
Feb 1-3, 2008 - O’Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA
Attending for myself and for claimID - this will be my first Foo Camp. I’m excited to meet some of the names I’ve been reading/watching for some time. [...]

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MicroID gains another foothold or three

This week (and a little of last month) - MicroID has made some major progress.
MyOpenID
First, I see that MyOpenID has implemented MicroID. Excellent implementation. They allow you a lot of control over how your information should be shared - and with your confirmed email addresses, they publish MicroID for others to be able [...]

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On the MySpace private photos torrent

So, here is a scenario playing out live…
- Lots of people post things to social network sites.
- Some of these things are private (friends/family type of private).
- The users understand and follow the rules, and protect themselves.
- There is a bug in the system.
- Their private stuff is now available to anyone.
- Someone grabs the [...]

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User Merge plugin for PunBB

To close out a week of very geeky Rails and PHP posts…
I released an administrator plugin for PunBB earlier this week and Rickard has posted it on the PunBB Downloads page (about 3/4ths of the way down).
User Merge. Created by Terrell Russell. The User Merge plugin allows administrators to merge two user accounts.
This follows the [...]

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Flickr Commons adds tags to Library of Congress images

Just announced this morning - a fantastic partnership between Flickr and the Library of Congress.
Flickr Commons
The Library of Congress Pilot Project
The Library of Congress has a Prints and Photographs Online Catalog comprised of over 1 million images (and growing) that have been available online for over 10 years.
Back in June of 2007, we began our [...]

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Generating a Rails and PunBB (and DokuWiki) shared cookie

This is another post for how I got something to work in the past week that’s been bugging me for a while. I recently wrote about how to get PHP to render correctly within a Rails app.
This post is about getting single-sign-on to work with a PunBB forum inside your Ruby on Rails application. [...]

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Running PHP within Rails

So this has been something I’ve been putting off because it wasn’t readily apparent how to make it happen when I first tried over a year and a half ago.
I wanted to manage a group of users and passwords for a community with an existing Ruby on Rails application - and then have both a [...]

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Peter Saint-Andre of XMPP on presence as real-time identity

I was pointed to an interview today from the Identity Gang listserv. Peter Saint-Andre was pre-interviewed before his appearance at the upcoming eComm 2008 in March.
A wonderful discussion - technical but listenable. Full interview is 50 minutes.
Peter spoke about how we are moving offline aspects of oneself online and moving online aspects of oneself [...]

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