Archive for February, 2004
Bits and Pieces
Like a lot of other people, I’ve subscribed to bloglines lately to manage my feed subscriptions; after a bit of time using SharpReader and FeedDemon, I’d gone back to my original, completely unscalable technique, which was to store each blog I read into a specific bookmark folder in Pheonix (aka FireFox), and select ‘Open in [...]
XFN Social Indexes
A new feature for rubhub.com: XFN Social Indexes (a.k.a top 10 lists). The lists may not be hugely meaningful at the moment, purely because of the limited amount of data they’re based on; but it will be interesting to see the way they develop as the dataset grows.
Some Early Stats
The response so far to rubhub has been great.
Stats-wise rubhub has crawled close to 1000 sites, with a 1 in 12 ratio of XFN users to non-XFN users. It will be interesting to see how that ratio changes as XFN takup rises. Another stat: about 80% of the sites that have been added through [...]
Relationship Lookup Engine based on XFN
Ok, it’s ready: rubhub.com can now be used to search and display the incoming and outgoing XFN relationships for a given site.
Thanks Claire!
I think the next eventual step will be to incorporate FOAF information, where it exists, to provide profile information on site authors.
I’ve also been pondering a rel=’self’ value, which could be [...]
It’s a pole, and it’s made of ice
Last weekend Claire and I visited Ben and Suzette and Ben gave me a demo of Icy Pole, his P2P app for sharing music on blue-tooth enabled mobile phones. What he’s done so far looks awesome, and I can imagine it as a platform for all kinds of information exchange. The best bit [...]