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<body><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://talis.com&quot;&gt;Talis&lt;/a&gt; - the UK software company that's working on Semantic Web technology and which employs fellow SWIGgers &lt;a href=&quot;http://dannyayers.com&quot;&gt;Danny Ayers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://iandavis.com&quot;&gt;Ian Davis&lt;/a&gt; and others - has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/talis_semantic_web.php&quot;&gt;written up on Read/Write Web&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:28:21 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2007/12/19/signal_to_noise&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Cascading Style Sheet&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/acronym&gt; &lt;acronym title=&quot;Working Group&quot;&gt;WG&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on the Opera lawsuit making further work possible: &lt;q&gt;Please find something else to argue over, thanks.&lt;/q&gt;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:39:29 GMT"/>
<outline text="A quick, dirty solution to the &quot;I don't want Dopplr knowing my Gmail password&quot; problem" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://adactio.com/journal/1357&quot;&gt;Jeremy&lt;/a&gt; wrote a while back about the &quot;password anti-pattern&quot; - which is a terrible, fucked-up idea. After the dust-up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/04/quechup-is-rotten-do.html&quot;&gt;Quechup&lt;/a&gt;, a lot of people - myself included - feel that handing out our e-mail password to Yet Another Social Network is a bit of a stupid idea. I mean, banks don't give their customers keys to their safe.&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="Anyway, &lt;a href=&quot;http://dopplr.com&quot;&gt;Dopplr&lt;/a&gt; allows you to point it to a web page with hCards on it and it'll check the e-mail addresses of people on that page and then let you easily add anyone with that e-mail to your friends list.&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="I've been meaning to do this for Gmail. I exported the CSV from Gmail, wrote a short &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/files/gmail2hcard-py.txt&quot;&gt;Python script&lt;/a&gt; (LGPL) which converts it into an HTML page containing hCards, and then uploaded the result. Then I pointed Dopplr to this private web page, and it pointed out a few people I'd forgotten to add to my network.&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="It's not user friendly, but it doesn't require giving a Web 2.0 startup (admittedly one I trust - I briefly met Matt Biddulph at &lt;acronym title=&quot;Future of Web Apps&quot;&gt;FOWA&lt;/acronym&gt; and know people who've worked with him) the keys to my fricking &lt;em&gt;e-mail&lt;/em&gt; account.&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="I wish social networks would let me download my social network in a &lt;acronym title=&quot;Friend Of A Friend&quot;&gt;FOAF&lt;/acronym&gt; file or an HTML page containing hCard/XFN. That way I can choose how I want to reuse that data. &lt;acronym&gt;FOAF&lt;/acronym&gt; is particularly good for this because it's expressive enough to describe pretty much everything one could ever conceive of in a social network, and I can &lt;abbr title=&quot;SPARQL Protocol and Query Language&quot;&gt;SPARQL&lt;/abbr&gt; hCards out of them.&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/><outline text="Jeremy said that he's not going to build websites that use the password anti-pattern. Well, let me say this here: I do not give my passwords out to other sites. Perhaps the e-mail providers should take this as a suggestion and let users export their data and use OpenID/OAuth to allow other web services to get data out of them in a way controllable by the user." created="Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:45 GMT"/></outline></body>
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