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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 […]

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Wikipedia is good enough, good grief

Larry Sanger is beginning to sound more and more desperate. The growing, but largely irrelevant Citizendium project is still too top-heavy with administrative overhead and will continue to be an also-ran to any discussion around human stores of knowledge. However, this is not stopping the continued declaration of quality-over-quantity. Some people might be a little […]

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IIW, OpenLifeBits, and Facebook’s Beacon

So, two weeks on, I write up my thoughts on my trip to IIW2007B at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. As I wrote over at claimID, we had an incredible few days. There was a new energy in the air this time as interoperability was assumed and a focus on services began to […]

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OpenLifeBits – For Your Digital Stuff

I have a proposal. I have been watching and reading about social network portability and data portability and OpenID and facebook beacon and doc searls’ vendor relationship management and Obama’s call for open formats and Google Drive and Jon Udell’s hosted lifebits scenarios (another post just today). And Chris Messina has been hanging around this […]

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Tag Decay Poster from ASIST is online

I met quite a few people at the recent ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Milwaukee and told them I’d be getting my poster online. The poster is up – Tag Decay: A View Into Aging Folksonomies (PDF 1.7MB) It was a great problem to have people standing, listening, and asking questions for four hours. I just […]

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Timelined Information Retrieval

I was thinking about how I search through my email this morning and worked out that sometimes I know more about *when* an email happened than what it said or who it was from. This is a rare thing, but generalizing, I quickly worked out that this would be a great addition to any/all search […]

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“Always Away” for plausible deniability

I’ve noticed this myself over the past few years. As more and more of my friends come online “all the time” and/or have connections at work, they leave their chat clients open and set to “Away”. It has exactly its intended consequence. I don’t write them unless I have something I need to send them […]

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Chinese social networks require Real Names

In a post on the SIG-III blog, Aaron Bowen writes about his attempt at creating a profile on the Chinese social networking site, Zhanzuo. He was thwarted since he couldn’t type his name in characters that aren’t Chinese. More to the point, he was thwarted because he couldn’t be in compliance with the rule that […]

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PunBB support of MicroID updated to version .3

A MicroID day here today… Rickard committed my tweak to the PunBB 1.3 codebase to be MicroID compatible with version .3 of the spec. The changeset is here.

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Drupal module for MicroID updated

I’ve been working with Tane Piper over the last couple days over IRC tweaking his improvements to his Drupal MicroID module (getting it Version .3 compatible). He has implemented node-level and comment-level MicroIDs that appear both in the meta tags of the page and are then rendered into the node divs and comment divs directly […]

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