Re: Doing things with WebID and a Poster Child

On 5 May 2011 15:14, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
> Just tried data.fm finally a bit more. It's fun.
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> 1. In one WebId click I got an account
> 2. Then I created an bblfish.data.fm cloud in one click
> 3. Then because of my foaf profile I found that melvin and timbl were my friends clouds.
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> Very nice. Is someone going to put a quick paper together for this in Berlin? Even if Joe can't go, perhaps someone
> else here can present it form him.

Yes, I use this as my primary testing space now.

I'm working on a chess application using the read write web.

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> Henry
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> On 4 Apr 2011, at 20:13, Nathan wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> Over the past few months, Joe Presbrey (who's been highly involved with WebID since the start and does the Apache mods) has been beavering away on http://data.fm/ (formerly rdf.me) and is creating something great which we can all use, and which fully supports and uses WebID.
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>> In short, it's a "data wiki" and storage platform which (now) supports everything from HTML files and css/js through to RDF, N3 and SPARQL support, all with a RESTful interface and hooked in to WebID authentication, Facebook auth, and full ACL control on resources. Really, anybody could get on and use it as either a storage platform, or create simple/powerful demos of real world apps using it today.
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>> Amongst others, Melvin Carvahlo (also heavily involved in WebID, and creator of foaf.me) has been getting rather excited about it and setting up all manner of demo's and use cases (for instance on melvster.data.fm).
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>> So, if you:
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>> - are in to coding and would like to work on something webid related and make data.fm better, the code is all open source http://dig.xvm.mit.edu/redmine/projects/data-fm/ and I'd encourage you to get together w/ Joe and do some hacking/coding, or pull down the repo and get using it yourself.
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>> - are in to making demo's which use webid, then I'd encourage you to contact Joe, Melvin, (or even myself) and get doing something which utilizes WebID (the more demos and uses the better for us all!)
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>> - have anything you'd love to see WebID powered, just say or discuss.
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>> As always, coding, seeing something come to fruition, or simply using cool new demo's and things, always gets a group moving well, and really spur's on ones own personal interest.
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>> Of course this isn't the only project, many others on the group also have related projects and implementations, but this is just one that's very actively developed and which is really a joy to work on and participate in. So, you might enjoy :)
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>> Best,
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>> Nathan
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