Juan Sequeda wrote: > Hopefully everybody has heard that Twitter will release some annotation > feature which will allow to add metadata to each tweet. > > I just read this blog post > http://scobleizer.com/2010/04/15/twitter-annotations/ > > <http://scobleizer.com/2010/04/15/twitter-annotations/>and the following > caught my attention: "There aren’t any rules as to what can be in this > metadata. YET. All the devs I’ve talked to say they expect Twitter to > “bless” namespaces so the industry will have one common way to describe > common things" > > I'm just wondering what people here think about this.
I think it's also worth focussing on the push to online identity and access control etc through OAuth+twitter, for all involved a simple oauth + username combo is much easier in every way than openid, foaf+ssl and the likes. Not only that but it's rolled out to the masses, and already implemented in many places + gaining much more traction than anything related. One thing it does point out though, is that with an implementation of twitter metadata it may be possible to construct the triple: @username foaf:account_of <webid> caveat: there is no foaf:account_of ?? Quite sure there is some scope for FOAF+SSL, FOAF+OAuth+Twitter or security upgrade and downgrade between the different protocols. The precise details of which I haven't thought of yet. Best, Nathan
