The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.
/by Chris Messina (source)
The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.
/by Chris Messina (source)
That excellent post of Tantek Çelik’s, like all well–hyperlinked documents, lead me to a whole raft of great #indieweb resources I hadn’t come across before:
(In other news: I need to make a “dump tabs into new note dialog” browser #extension)
Hey Christopher,
I have some questions.
Firstly, who are you? Have you worked on any social-web related projects before? Do you own your identity on the web (i.e. have a personal URL)? Do you post content under your own domain? Do you actively encrypt many of your communications?
If not, with what authority/experience/motive are you proposing a “standardized standard” for social data? If you have not put effort into building and using your identity on the web, why should any of us who have care about your proposal, as it is unlikely to be relevant to the actual problems faced by people trying to implement this stuff?
Secondly, why is your wiki username socml? Making your username the name of the thing you’re proposing strikes me as odd, if not slightly arrogant.
Thirdly, have you heard of activitystrea.ms? Judging by your admission that you “have not searched the web
Watching “Free, open, secure Communications” live stream at #fosdem #indieweb #fsw
Laurent Eschenauer have fun! Is anyone doing an etherpad/recording? #indieweb #fsw
Ooh, A Better Social Web sounds interesting. Looking forward to next week’s Exeter_web meet
http://identengine.com/ is an amazing social graph API for the #indieweb. Great work Glenn Jones!
Google say there’s a “significant” number of pages sending X-Pingback
— I'd like to see actual stats.
@cssquirrel “if” we have thoughts? You mean there’s a possibility we won’t?! My “thoughts” would fill a podcast on their own, but no–one wants to listen to me ranting to myself ;)
.Jeremy Keith you're wrong! Twitter have done us all a huge favour by preventing the zombie apocalypse: http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/p/ps
Some of the social advantages of s/app.net/#indieweb: http://www.mattheerema.com/web-tech-design/2012/10/the-app-net-plunge-and-related-social-media-realizations/ /via @sophiedennis
I’m making a set of PHP5 classes to represent activitystrea.ms data in applications: https://github.com/barnabywalters/php-activitystreams #indieweb
Ben Ward I cross post, so added to my todo list. Would also be good if they followed http://indiewebcamp.com/syndication_formats
@sandeepshetty do you use IRC? Lots of good #fsw discussion on #indiewebcamp channel and the IWC wiki
@sandeepshetty fab :) I want to get Salmon working so I can reply/fave/etc. from my own software but it’s bloody awkward. Currently in the process of publishing some ideas on how magic sigs could be more effectively used. In the mean time, Pingback FTW!
@sandeepshetty followed. Try subscribing to my PuSH-enabled atom feed! Go following → remote → http://waterpigs.co.uk
Makers of cross–posting software, please care for your cross–links: http://indiewebcamp.com/syndication_formats#Truncation_and_Backlinks /cc @tapbots @appdotnet
Ward Cunningham’s Smallest Federated Wiki never fails to amaze me: http://youtu.be/m684-w9sIqk