Hi Sven, I have several vote-for links on my site (http://www.numblog.de/). Yet, when I enter the URL on folksr, it tells me that it ignores my votings (although your parser correctly detected them). Can you explain why this is the case?
Best - Matthias 2008/1/16, Sven Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I introduced folksr.de as a first, highly experimental stab at an > application for distributed votings using the vote-link Microformat > quite some time ago to this list. > > # Distributed votings: folksr is here (again) ... > > I've finally come around to resurrect folksr from being pretty > stalled. I've done a complete rewrite and changed some of the way it > works to incorporate various learnings from the first, experimental > version. I've tried to keep things as basic as possible for now and > omitted everything that I felt is not necessary to get a simple, yet > useful tool going. > > In a nutshell: Folksr aggregates vote-links when the target URL of a > vote-link has been registered for a voting on folksr.de (i.e. it is > not required to link to folksr.de to get a vote in). There are two > types of votings (called 'opinions' and 'polls'). Folksr relies solely > on OpenID for sign-in. > > # How can I get you involved? > > I'd highly appreciate your feedback, suggestions, criticism, > support ... and of course ... participation and help. > > I'd particularly like to ask you folks for suggestions and help to get > some initial "real" votings and usage going. > > What could possibly be done to motivate you folks to try folksr and > publish a vote? What topics would be interesting enough? What else? > > # What's next? > > Aside from real usage which I think is really the most important thing > for folksr to evolve now, the next important thing might be to further > work on the presentation and interface design. > > I feel folksr is way to text-laden and doesn't communicate its own > purpose very well. I will continue to try to improve that. Suggestions > are very welcome. > > Unfortunately, as a programmer, I am pretty much an all-fingers-thumbs > moron when it comes to logos, graphics and stuff like that. So I also > very much appreciate every single bit of help here. > > Also I plan to add the following features in the near future: > > - plugins for some blog engines for pinging folksr about new votes > when published (Chris Messina suggested the term "voteback" which I > think is a perfect match, thanks Chris!) > - a timemachinesque history to review past states of votings and > charts to visualize a voting's history (initially suggested by Brian > Suda) > - tagging for votings (also suggested by Brian Suda) > > # Some links > > What is Folksr? > http://folksr.de/about > > How folksr works > http://folksr.de/votelinks > > FAQ > http://folksr.de/faq > > Announcement on my blog (somewhat extended version of this mail) > http://www.artweb-design.de/2008/1/16/folksr-is-here-again-distributed-votings-using-microformats > > > > > -- > sven fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] > artweb design http://www.artweb-design.de > grünberger 65 + 49 (0) 30 - 47 98 69 96 (phone) > d-10245 berlin + 49 (0) 171 - 35 20 38 4 (mobile) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
