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[OpenID, please] geourl.org - Demand OpenID: Work at geourl.org? Get started with OpenID at openid.net/developers. geourl.org visit. Status: No OpenID login. 1 person wants OpenID on geourl.org Me too! ferdna · about help/support openid.net.

[Start Up Surgeon] Mash-Up: Consequently, widgets make a compelling and ubquitious packaging system for mashup functionality, particularly since most widgets also provide automatic API connectivity back to its originating site (for example an eBay listing widget connects back to eBay from a mashup or Web page live to pull auctions from the API.) However, the widget world is very informal and there are no official standards (yet) and widgets have been co-opted by countless companies and named badges, gadgets, modules, and other things. Some of these companies, particularly Microsoft, Google, and a few others, have been imposing their own gadget models that allow businesses to plug into their ecosystems of users but largely keep their gadgets captive.The real issue is that mashup creators need to have access to the Web’s full inventory of functionality and the different widget models are fostering silos of widgets that it’s not likely most mashup creators will have full access to with their tools.

[A little place of calm] A little place of calm » Blog Archive » A beautiful new theme!: This morning i reinstated my blog as an OpenID URL, using the MyOpenID plugin. Previously i had hardcoded the meta lines into the theme, but it makes more sense to use a plugin. I am also trying out the Twitter for Wordpress .... 1 hour ago ; blogging: GeoURL - a new WordPress plugin http://tinyurl.com/d3d33y 9 hours ago; @inspirewithhope I did have a good day, and i did write a plugin! :) More information on my blog! :) 9 hours ago; @pluginspodcast Funny you should ask! ...

[Social Mode] Traditional Publishers in 2008 - Economic Reality « Social Mode: Major publishers are horrible at syndicating their content to the general public.   They are slow to embrace mechanisms like RSS, MRSS, aggregators, tag clouds, geoURL, openID, openSocial, etc. etc.  They are slow in getting into the social network and twitter like things.  When they do get in all the good real estate is gone.

[A little place of calm] A little place of calm » Blog Archive » Daniel César Martín Brühl ...: For Ruby/Rails i used the ruby-openid gem, which depends upon the Yadis gem. I have only experimented with the consumer side, not server.

[blog.startupsurgeon.com] Mash-Up: Initiatives like openid are helping but are not a complete solution. Like widget models, this too needs a leadership figure to definitely resolve for the industry or many types of useful mashups are not and will not be possible in the .

[A little place of calm] A little place of calm » Blog Archive » Shavua Tov! - Happy new week!: Unfortunately the OpenID plugin is failing again and i don't know who made this comment! reply edit reblog flag. 2 /people/sermoa/ /people/sermoa/following/ http://aimee.mychores.co.uk 732208777 sermoa sermoa sermoa ...

[The Playground] Getting Ready for IE7, in CSS, on The Playground: Internet Explorer 7 will also have increased support for more CSS commands and rules, most notably that :hover will work on all elements (currently it only works on links in Internet Explorer). This means that you can make CSS dropdown navigation menus in Internet Explorer 7 without any JavaScript.

[Connection Commons DOT org] Where my “head is at” - Links I Found of Interest out of ~9000: http://geourl.org/. I’d note-. GeoURL is a directory containing a large list of URLs and their mappings to a certain location on Earth. Its main use is for finding websites according to their proximity to a given location. ...

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