Great stuff glenn! 2009/10/8 André Luís <andr3...@gmail.com> > > Hi Glenn, > > comments inline. > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Glenn Jones <glenn.jo...@madgex.com> wrote: > > Hi André > > > > Thanks for the nice comments about the identity work. Can you email me a > > quick summary of the errors off the list and I will have look. > > > > You deserve it. And I will ask them for details and fwd them to you. > > > Like microformats one of the aims of identity consolidation should be to > > surface the data so that it is not hidden from the user. This is > > especially important when rel=me linking goes wrong, users want to explore > > the issue themselves. I had this conversation Brad Fitzpatrick the creator > > of the Google Social Graph API earlier this year. We both agreed we need to > > build some sort of visualisation tool to explore social graphs. > > > > I think I have achieved this for profiles with Ident Engines. You can see > > what profile information is store about you and where, but I have yet to > > look at visualisation of the rel=me linkages. More importantly found a way > > to allow users to explore issues with their own graph. > > > > The tool I use the most at the moment is: > > > > http://identengine.com/debug/debug-identites.htm > > > > It's only a linear list, but sometimes help me find rogue relationships > > > > Right! At least it allows people to take care of the "weeds" in their > social graph. Funny. One of the comments I heard when someone was > trying it out was: "hey! I've told them [whoever they might be] to > remove that site/link!!" hahaha Apparently he didn't know someone was > still linking an extinct website as his somewhere. :)
The example one I built when we launched the SG API can be quite handy too, as it shows degree of connectedness too, and inbound-only : http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findyours.html eg http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findyours.html?q=kevinmarks.com BTW, your code isn't finding the hCard on kevinmarks.com > > As for visualization of the social graph, I've been using > http://workshop.andr3.net/xfnexplorer/ but it's very very slow, > limited to 200 nodes and not "distributable". The parsing is done via > serverside, using Dmitry's Optimus. I see myself rewriting this to > link the Ident engine and JIT toolkit (see footer) to achieve the same > results but much faster. :) > > Cheers, > André Luís > > > Glenn > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: microformats-discuss-boun...@microformats.org > > [mailto:microformats-discuss-boun...@microformats.org] On Behalf Of André > > Luís > > Sent: 07 October 2009 16:19 > > To: Microformats Discuss > > Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Ident Engine > > > > Glenn, > > > > thank you (once again) for your effort. > > > > This is *huge*. I believe it *does* lower the barrier of using > > identity discovery. Specially given the level of interest around js. > > And thank you for including a note on progressive enhancement on your > > ALA article. ;) > > > > Meanwhile, I've pimped the lib around the office and some of them are > > sending me feeback on some of the tests they ran. Would you be > > interested in checking some of the faulty results? One of them got a > > sgn:// "template" URLs from myspace in one of your demos. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > André Luís > > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Glenn Jones <glenn.jo...@madgex.com> wrote: > >> Hi All > >> > >> I have built a little JavaScript library that combines Social Graph data > >> and parsing of open data sources such as microformats. > >> > >> http://identengine.com/ > >> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/discovering-magic/ > >> > >> Earlier this year Chris Messina made the passing comment that the > >> techniques I demoed involved too much hoop jumping to be of practical > >> use. I built this library to see if I could lower the barrier of entry. > >> A List Apart published an article I have written on the libraries > >> architecture. > >> > >> The library makes extensive use of both the Google's Social Graph API > >> and Yahoo's YQL. It all under a MIT license > >> > >> Try out the demo's > >> > >> Glenn Jones > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> microformats-discuss mailing list > >> microformats-discuss@microformats.org > >> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > microformats-discuss mailing list > > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
