Philip Guth's Bookmarks tagged blog → View Popular

Expand All 1 - 20 of 27 Next ›

5Expand

Tags: blog on 2007-11-04 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

One of the many promises of OpenID is the ability to more easily federate profile information from an identity provider to secondary consumer applications.
formats. I’d like to propose a vast simplification of this problem by adopting attributes from the vCard standard (also known as RFC2426). As you probably know, it’s this standard that defines the attributes of the hCard microformat and therefore is exceptionally appropriate for the case of OpenID (given its reliance on URLs for identifiers!).
(I’d venture that there are many million hcards in the wild), it only makes sense to leverage the upward trend in the adoption of hcard and to use it as a parallel partner in the OpenID-profile-exchange dance.
While AX is well specified, hCard is well supported (as well as well-specified).
Most importantly, however, hcard and vcard is already widely supported in existing applications like Outlook, Mail.app and just about every mobile phone on the planet and in just about any other application that exchanges profile data.

Tags: blog on 2007-09-29 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

Tags: blog on 2007-09-18 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

1Expand

6Expand

your library is RSS-ified for others to subscribe to, and you can export it using another custom XML format listing title, author, ISBN and such. Importing books is possible as well by providing a list of ISBNs.
Google's embed dialog also allows you to directly blog something with Blogger, or add it to Google Notebook.
The Google Books project, formerly called Google Print (project name "Ocean"), continues to evolve aiming to become "the" book search center with an abundance of research options and data mining features, like maps integration, or the new popular passages.
Right now the biggest obstacle for users I see are the often confusing separations between public domain books, partner books and library books.
And why shouldn't I be allowed to clip fair use passages from copyrighted books, for instance?
In related news, the New York Times reports that both Amazon and Google will be entering the ebook market this year.

5Expand

At many colleges and universities, wikis are used mostly as a supplement to primary teaching tools like textbooks and labs, while other Web 2.0 technologies -- such as social networking sites like Facebook -- have become a staple of student life.
In one Boston College professor's classroom, however, wikis have become a primary learning tool, replacing textbooks and allowing improved collaboration among students.
Gerald Kane, assistant professor of information systems at the Chestnut Hill, Mass., school, has been using a wiki from SocialText Inc. as the primary teaching tool in his classroom since October, relying on the technology to integrate content from other Web 2.0 technologies like social book-making tools, RSS systems, and Google for his "Computers in Management" courses.
Some recent research surveys have found that some companies are investing in wikis, but the technology is used less heavily than other Web 2.0 tools like RSS feeds and social networks.
The survey concluded that companies are investing more heavily in Web services, RSS, podcasts, social networking and peer-to-peer networking