Ok, I get it, this answers my question. - Matthias
2008/2/3, Sven Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Matthias, > > thanks for the feedback. > > Folksr needs to identify a voting (poll, opinion) to assign your > votes. It does this by looking at the href attribute of your vote > links. If it can't find a voting (in its local database) for a vote it > will ignore it. > > You can create a voting (like "What's you favorite NuJazz label?" or > whatever context you actually refer to with your vote links) here: > http://folksr.de/votings > > Folksr will then aggregate your vote links accordingly. > > Does this answer your questions? > > I will try to make the message that folksr issues when it ignores a > vote more understandable and perhaps add a link to the FAQ. > > Thanks again! > > > Am 03.02.2008 um 11:21 schrieb Mattsches: > > > 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 > >> > > -- > 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
