Comments on: URLs aren’t just for web pages

By: Linked Data making the web human centric « Derivadow.com

Linked Data making the web human centric « Derivadow.com — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:22:54 +0000

[...] about the stuff that matters to them – whether that be a TV programme, a music track, a book, a person, or a holiday. And whether they access that thing on their desktop computer, mobile phone or IP [...]

By: BBC public value in the online world « Derivadow.com

BBC public value in the online world « Derivadow.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:02:56 +0000

[...] I’ve discussed previously emails are for contacting people not for identifying them. Using emails for identification means [...]

By: Tom Scott

Tom Scott — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:02:26 +0000

@Jim – well in terms of people having an OpenID account, you could argue that it’s mainstream right now. After all everyone with a Yahoo!, AOL/AIM or WordPress account has one right now.

But that’s only half the story. What needs to happen next is these (and other) services need to start to accept OpenID. The fact Yahoo! et al. don’t is a really shame and makes me think they are jumping on the marketing bandwagon. I hope I’m wrong and in due course they like Plaxo, Dopplr etc. will start to using others OpenIDs.

By: Jim Simmons

Jim Simmons — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:54:03 +0000

**** crickets ****

By: Jim Simmons

Jim Simmons — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:42:23 +0000

All great, but can someone suggest how this can be made into a mainstream solution? Or point to examples of how the benefit is so clear that even average user would “get it” and make openID based auth their primary method? I suppose the benefit has to be crystal clear to the service/site too (Magnolia comes to mind).

By: Tom Scott

Tom Scott — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:06:59 +0000

Chris: Thanks for the links – very nice set of articles. Much better than what I wrote.

Danny: Sure an HTTP GET wouldn’t return a person! But a URI can be used to identify a person just as an ISBN can be used to identify a book.

By: Danny Ayers

Danny Ayers — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:41:55 +0000

Nice piece, though it's worth repeating that URLs can't be used to directly identify people - a HTTP GET will not return the person! But URLs do make good indirect identifiers (e.g. using foaf:homepage or foaf:openid. But you can always Give yourself a URI...

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:43:31 +0000

Wow, this sounds like a bunch of the posts I’ve been writing lately..! ;) Nice.

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/04/08/oauth-discovery-10-draft-2-released-with-support-from-magnolia-fire-eagle-and-satisfaction/
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/03/19/relationships-are-complicated/
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/03/11/portable-contact-lists-and-the-case-against-xfn/
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/01/23/the-existential-diso-interview/
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/01/03/its-high-time-we-moved-to-url-based-identifiers/

By: Highly connected graphs: Opening BBC data « Derivadow.com

Highly connected graphs: Opening BBC data « Derivadow.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:55:50 +0000

[...] and HTTP etc.) to identify and link to a representation of something, and that something can be person, a programme or an album release. These resources also have representations which can be [...]