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Where the Ma.gnolia community meets to discuss social bookmarking and online life.
AideRSS and Ma.gnolia: Helping RSS Help You
One of the reasons behind starting Ma.gnolia was to make it easier for people to extract the best of the web from the rest. By saving a link we also tell others who follow our links about something we think is interesting. As the web grows, content grows, and while social solutions to the problem of information overload are helping, the software has to keep evolving to keep up.
AideRSS has been working on making evolution happen at the RSS feed level, and today they’ve announced their PostRank technology. PostRank draws from a number of sources to help feed readers tune into what content others find engaging. We’re very happy to say that PostRank is now following live updates to public bookmarks saved by the Ma.gnolia community, using that information to identify the stuff worth reading.
A big congratulations must go out to the AideRSS team, which hails from my old stomping ground of Waterloo, Ontario. If you haven’t looked at what they have to offer, and consider feeds a major piece of your online toolkit, you’ll want to look into what they’ve got going on.
Posted by Todd on July 10, 2008 | 2 comments | Mark This Post
We Got Gnip!
A heads up for readers: this post is on the technical side, and will be of interest to anyone doing web developement, or who might otherwise be curious about how the evolution of the programmable web.
Continued...Posted by Todd on July 9, 2008 | 0 comments | Mark This Post
A Ma.gnolia iGoogle Gadget
For many folks in the online world, the morning coffee is often enjoyed with making the rounds to our favorite sources of news and status information. Customizable portal pages, like iGoogle, make this task quite a lot easier by allowing us to pull in content from many different sources, and to arrange it in a way that suits us best.
There are limits to what iGoogle can do, though, as there’s only so much space on a webpage. If you’re the kind of person who likes to have many, many web destinations at your fingertips, Ma.gnolia’s new iGoogle gadget might be just what you need.
Continued...Posted by Larry on June 30, 2008 | 4 comments | Mark This Post
OAuth Update: Discovery Support is Here
For our more technically-minded readers, we have an update on the progress being made with OAuth, and about OAuth support in Ma.gnolia.
Eran Hammer-Lahav announced yesterday the Draft 2 status of the OAuth Discovery spec, and the news that support had already gone live in FireEagle, Get Satisfaction and of course, Ma.gnolia.
What’s the big idea? Eran summarizes OAuth Discovery as
...where a resource protected by OAuth points to a machine readable document containing the configuration needed to access the resource. With that idea in mind, OAuth Discovery has been revised to fit into the general resource discovery flow, where the OAuth configuration is but one of potentially many other attributes associated with the resource.
This is a step in a longer vision:
As soon as we have a wide range of discoverable resources, we can make the case for built-in browser support for OAuth and discovery, enabling developers to implement a single protocol for all their access control needs, regardless if it is being used by an API developer or an end user visiting a site with a browser.
Posted by Todd on April 8, 2008 | 2 comments | Mark This Post
On Our New Front Doors
Last week I tweeted a couple of times about a big little change we made with Ma.gnolia about how we accept new registrations. Turns out quite a few people around the Internet noticed. One of the running themes among all of this is that we were using OpenID to minimize spam.
Let me say this as clearly as I can: requiring externally-verified accounts – either OpenID or Facebook – is not about using these technologies as anti-spam tools.
Continued...Posted by Larry on April 3, 2008 | 6 comments | Mark This Post
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