- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:58:51 +0200
- To: Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>
- Cc: Antonio Tapiador del Dujo <atapiador@dit.upm.es>, public-fedsocweb@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhK1A3s=LGweeciwvqMBpMPrwrJt+hT2Godu8UbcHZK6Xw@mail.gmail.com>
On 30 July 2012 11:35, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 27 July 2012 14:05, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Antonio Tapiador del Dujo >> <atapiador@dit.upm.es> wrote: >> > Hi Michiel, I agree that is better to start with something useful, >> specially >> > if you are the one who is actually working on it :-) >> > >> > But, at least for the record, a couple elements I am missing: >> > >> > * contact or friend list >> >> yes i agree, got that mostly working already actually. The formats i >> support for this so far are PoCo and foaf. >> >> For now i only support 'following', not 'followers', because to >> authoratively announce who your followers are you would need to >> present signed statements from them, and that's a bit complicated (and >> also i'm not aware of anybody actually doing this). Having said that, >> once we have a bit of data indexed, we could draw the graph, and link >> back, so that the search engine could display for each search result >> not only who they follow, but also a subset of who publicly follow >> them. And of course, you could see the degrees-of-separation between >> yourself and each search result row, and prioritize results based on >> that. >> >> > * content sets, such as pictures, blog posts, etc. >> >> good point. thanks! >> >> > as kingsley points out this is all covered by linked data > > i keep saying use URIs to describe things, it's not an advanced idea, it's > web 101 ... but seems to be falling on deaf ears > > so much is being reinvented from the last 10 / 20 or even 40 years here, > how is going to be possible to maintain everything > > it seems unhosted is currently mainly fascinated by web 2.0 compliant > buzzwords > > in case you havent noticed theyve been dropping like flies > oauth2 - fail > webfinger - fail > activity streams - fail > > imho, unhosted needs to make a strategic change 1) use uris to name things > 2) use linked data 3) dont reinvent too much and focus on a small standard > that can be done well > > distributed programming is very hard, and unhosted has come a long way, in > the next year it needs to focus on getting the foundations rock solid, to > super charging intself into the stratosphere discussed this with michiel off-list ... the comments above were supposed to be related to unhosted, not FSW in general main point i wanted to make was to encourage the use linked data practices i dont consider oauth2 to have failed, but the main author did come out and make that comment this week apologies for posting to FSW list, i kind of got mixed up between some of the threads here and on uhosted will tone things down a bit too :) </rant>
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