January 11, 2009 at 6:37 pm · Filed under Tumbled
via Wired. Also see the search results of the #Gaza hashtag on Twitter (until the spammers are stopped).
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ClaimID
August 28, 2008 at 3:57 pm · Filed under Tumbled
I remembered the name of the site that provides a similar server to the Personal Identity Pages I talked about a while ago, it’s called ClaimID
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OAuth sanctioned for use
August 28, 2008 at 2:33 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Web to get more social as OAuth is sanctioned for use
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Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience
August 14, 2008 at 9:18 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience
Interesting article about Twitter, as a new Twitter user I can ’sympathise’ with the article, so to speak.
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Personal Identity Pages
August 5, 2008 at 2:23 pm · Filed under The blog
I haven’t posted anything in the past few days, to be honest things have been rather quiet – newsfeeds have been quiet so I’ve had nothing much interesting to post.
A few months ago I read a blog article (which I am now frantically trying to find to link to) talking about making a simple homepage for your name – to use in comment posts and forums – containing links to places you exist on the Internet. Why? Because if people are interested in what you have to say, then they can follow you on whatever service they like (e.g. Twitter, Flickr, or just your blog) which is better than just sending them to your blog, or your Flickr. When I read it, it sounded like a good idea, so I set one up. It uses a really simple design, with large fonts and a small ‘about me’ paragraph. Today Toby emailed me asking if he could borrow some of the code to make his own, which I was fine with. I think it’s a great idea, and if you have any sort of Internet presence, it’s well worth doing.
If you don’t want to make one yourself, services exist to do similar things, such as ClaimID (which uses web technologies such as OpenID and MicroFormats) or alternatively feel free to do what Toby did and borrow my source code. But be sure to link back to me somewhere (just in the source is fine), and leave a comment letting me know who you are. And if you’re reading this, why not follow me on Twitter?