By danbri | Published:
2008-6-28
via Sumit Kataria on the oauth list:
I am very happy to announce that Drupal’s OAuth module is now ready to use. Right now it just acts as server because we don’t need client support at this time, Client implementation will be done soon by the time release of Drupal 7 as ServicesAPI in Drupal 7 will [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-6-28
“You can spot the Americans in any airport. They like to undress.“
By danbri | Published:
2008-6-27
“A genetic theory of homosexuality.” by William Saletan in yesterday’s Slate suggests an inevitable analogy.
The article reports on recent work (pdf) addressing the ‘if homosexuality is genetic, why hasn’t it died out?’ debate, which suggests that the ‘gene for male homosexuality persists because it promotes—and is passed down through—high rates of procreation among gay [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-6-27
Echoing recent discussion of Semantic Web “Killer Apps”, an “are Topic Maps dead?” thread on the topicmaps mailing list. Signs of life offered include www.fuzzzy.com (’Collaborative, semantic and democratic social bookmarking’, Topic Maps meet social networking; featured tag: ‘topic maps‘) and a longer-list from Are Gulbrandsen who suggests a predictable hype-cycle dropoff is occuring, as [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-6-27
Allegedly. Powerset are natural language processing specialists. See also last year’s ISWC talk from CTO Barney Pell, “Natural Language and the Semantic Web”, discussions with Barney from last month’s Talis Semantic Web Gang chat, and earlier commentary from Paul Miller.
By danbri | Published:
2008-6-27
Via Dave Beckett in #swig IRC, Manu Sporny’s handy 10 minute overview of RDFa Basics (see also other versions, source materials).
Here’s a screen grab of the full FOAF example used. Note that the WG renamed ‘instanceof’ to ‘typeof’ recently.
For the video-averse, a full transcript is available. Here’s the full XHTML markup example from the above [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-6-27
Building on last month’s announcement of OAuth for the Google Contacts API, this from Wei on the oauth list:
Just want to let you know that we officially support OAuth for all Google Data APIs.
See blog post:
You’ll now be able to use standard OAuth libraries to write code that authenticates users to any of the Google [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-6-25
A new work-in-progress vCard spec. See June 25th draft, and emailed changelog. Excerpted here:
o Removed useless text in IMPP description.
o Added CalDAV-SCHED example to CALADRURI.
o Removed CAPURI property.
o Dashes in dates and colons in times are now mandatory.
o Allow for dates such as 2008 and 2008-05 and times such as [...]
Posted in vCard | Tagged draft, ietf |