Hi Glenn, comments inline.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Glenn Jones <[email protected]> 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. :) 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: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
