I knew others were talking about distributed social networking, but Messina is working on code, and even code for WordPress! The Kilroy concept (an “I was here” plugin) looks excellent. Avatars looks like exactly what I’ve been saying I should do since I installed Gravatars on this blog. The contactlist plugin looks like basically what I have here (his code, I believe), but I’ve hacked mine some. His delegation looks a lot like what I want to add to my XRDS plugin. Pempeth would go great with his contact form concept.
Other cool stuff there too — overall just excited that things seem to be picking up a bit in this field — I’m writing some bookmarklets just now, and really should clean and release some of the remaining WordPress code.
Pempeth is the result of my work based on my previous private messaging TEP. The protocol draft has matured and there are now implementations! (see the page). Most notable is a WordPress plugin, active on this site.
The development of that plugin also sparked an XRDS plugin, which I have also released (despite its somewhat cryptic interface).
Those looking at the main page may also have noticed changes. Yes, that’s a mini-feed based on my online activity. Yes, it’s a plugin. The interface, however, only allows for adding sources (not editing or removing) and is somewhat cryptic, so I have not released it yet.
You can also now log into my blog with your Facebook account (see link in header)! This uses the API, so I don’t got your Facebook password or anything like that. Also an as-yet-unreleased plugin.
Fun days! I’m going to be working at AideRSS as a co-op in the coming months, should be fun and more freeing than school!
Yes, Blogger is at it again. Releasing new and (sometimes) exciting features. I took a bit of a spin with it today to see what is up.
The major additions are in regards to some of the rougher bits of Blogger 3.0 – the template WYSIWYG template editor. Some sorts of widgets have been sorely lacking for some time. Subscription links (for feeds) are new trivial to add to one’s Blogger sidebar. Better for hackers, Google Gadgets can now be directly added. The fact that this comes so close on the heels of OpenSocial is doubtfully a coincidence. This opens Blogger up to a large number of new functionalities instantly. Other new widgets include a search box, polls, and a sideshow widget for photos.
Videos are now just as trivial to add to posts as images. A loss useful feature, but cool none the less.
Now for my favourite and most exciting feature – OpenID! Yes, you read it correctly, the new Blogger (which could doubtless be dubbed Blogger 4.0) has support for leaving comments using OpenID!
This is exciting for a number of reasons, but largest of all is that this will soon expose THOUSANDS of people to OpenID. This could easily take it from a geek tech to mainstream knowledge.
Most everyone knows by now that Google released a major update for GMail some time ago. This broke most Greasemonkey scripts for GMail including my FBgmail v1. Google however, in their brilliance, released an “API” specifically for Greasemonkey on the new GMail! I have harnessed this to create a version of FBgmail for the new GMail.
Awhile ago I received this message from an unidentified user:
Title: photo for authors
Can you use javascript to show an author’s photo in the footer of a post? I’ve looked everywhere and only find it in the old blogger Any help would be awesome!
While a script based on my new comment author photos could be built to inject the image for the post author (multi-author blogs), I thought it might first be useful to provide basic information about hard-coding this.
Go to the Template tab on your blog’s dashboard
Select Edit HTML
Check the Expand Widget Templates box
Find the code block starting with <div class='post-footer'> or after <data:post.body/>