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ActionStream 0.40 and DiSo Profile 0.25
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I have updated two of my DiSo plugins: Profile and ActionStream.
The profile updates mostly involve some code cleanup, a page here documenting it, and a new API to add permissions options to the permissions page.
The ActionStream update is a bit more extensive:
- Support for coComment
- Code cleanup, of course
- RSS2 output option, linked from the stream output (add &full for a different view)
- Reportedly working in WP2.5 with a patch I accepted
- Better Safari support
- If you disable showing your service usernames they are also hidden in the collapsed items
- Abitily to set permissions on updates from each service (if wp-diso-profile0.25 is installed)
© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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Avatar Plugins
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About time! I've mentioned multiple times that I wanted to turn the logic I use here for user photos on comments into a plugin. I've made two hacks for blogger that do this, after all, why not for Wordpress?
My recent work with the DiSo project has caused this interest I had to come back, in the form of two plugins.
Plugin #1 - Avatar from URL
This plugin looks at the comment author's URL and tries to find a suitable image. This is primarily done by looking for an hCard, but it will also use other images if no hCard I found.
Plugin #2 - AllAvatars
This plugin is what is now powering comment avatars on this blog. It detects if you have the gravatars plugin, the avatars from URL plugin, or the favatars plugin installed and tries to use the avatar those plugins would normally give (in the listed priority order) — thus allowing more avatars to display than with any one of these plugins.
It also detects if there is photo data in the user's profile (such as data imported by my semi-released hCard Import plugin) and overrides any other plugins with that.
© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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The State of Distributed Social Networking
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Also known as Portable Social Networking, this is the concept of decentralising the social networking functionality of sites like Facebook so that one does not have to use every service to connect with everyone (previously covered here).
Videntity is a wonderful service for this movement, and one that I have been using as the hub of much of my efforts. Explode seems promising, but they're down for upgrade.
So let's talk about my list from last time:
- hCards and Pingerati : For Blogger I have a wizard. Pingerati pings still manual. For WordPress there is a widget. Pings still manual. For even more professional information (such as my resume) there is an hResume WordPress Plugin. For other websites/services there is always the hCard Creator. Of course, Videntity.org supports hCard by default.
- XFN Friends lists : For Blogger I have a wizard. This wizard will actually work on any web page or on any service where you can post (X)HTML (including MySpace or Xanga!) For WordPress there is a nice plugin, although a widget version would be a bonus. Videntity supports this by default.
As far as finding/adding friends goes I have a bookmarklet for Videntity that allows one to add hCards, Facebook results, or Wink.com people results as friends/contacts. Bookmarklets for other services would not be hard. For Blogger we would need an actual blogroll-producing service beyond just a wizard to make this work.
- Public/private profiles : Again, Videntity has this built right in (as long as you have the URL that the contact uses for OpenID on the friend list, it does not follow rel=me). I am working on a solution for WordPress. Would people be interested in a solution for Blogger/other websites?
- Messaging : not sure where I stand on this. Lots of nice contact options, and creating a 'wall'-like interface on WordPress would be easy. The question is : what is the goal of this? If it is just the address book features then a way to integrate social networking contact lists with email clients / Gmail might be better. If it is being able to communicate without revealing your email address a protocol/system for that might be easy enough.
My brother (and avid Facebooker) says that it is about visibility. The benefit of Facebook messaging, for him, is the unified notifications area that he KNOWS his friends all check. He KNOWS that they will see his message. He is not sure they check their email.
I still promote the idea of supporting rel=tag on hCards. We need a better hCard search engine, one that takes Pingerati pings, crawls regularly (some of my pings from months ago were never indexed by the Technorati Kitchen hCard search), outputs results as hCards (to facilitate things like my bookmarklet), and recognizes rel=tag.
Perhaps a tagspace could do a rev=tag for members. If an hCard URL has rel=tag to a page that has rev=tag to it that would give credibility to the category.
Notifications (think Facebook mini-feed) need to fit into this idea somehow. Events are hCalendar. Notes/posts/shares are hAtom/xFolk. Status is something I've blogged about recently too. Services like Twitter are heading in the right direction.
© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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XFN + XOXO + hCard Blogroll Generator
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What's that? Your blog platform doesn't support XFN? You want more XOXO-centric markup on your blogroll? You want your friends marked up as hCards in the blogroll? Now you can!
This generator tool is based on the original XFN Creator and generates code for a full XOXO blogroll with XFN relationships and hCard nodes.
© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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hCard Profile Generator
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Users on the New Blogger may be pleased to discover there is a nice third-party tool for generating a profile section that is hCard-compatible!
© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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Thanks for updating
I particularly like the RSS option. For me, this is the best self-hosted lifestream plugin for wordpress.
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