Month: August 2007

Social networking updates on Rosebleed

I've been updating the features on [tag]Rosebleed[/tag]. Most of the changes are not immediately visible, but they're nifty:
I've rolled out [tag]microformat[/tag] markup all over the site – user profiles are now [tag]hcard[/tag]-enabled and the friendslist is marked up with [tag]hCard+XFN[/tag].
I also implemented [tag]FOAF[/tag] profiles with autodiscovery, much like that provided by LiveJournal (for a cool FOAF tool, check out the FOAF Explorer).

Still in the works on the SN side is implementing [tag][/tag] for logins and order tracking, and hCard, hCard+XFN and FOAF profile-pulling.

Site Update

Well, I've joined the 21st century and retired my home-rolled site management system.
I've moved the majority of my previous content over to use [tag]WordPress[/tag] 2.2.2 (yes, with proper redirects…), and will be finishing up over the next little while.
The new system has quite a few modernizations: tags, comments, trackback (I've been planning to implement trackbacks for a while, both for here and for ; never got around to it), XFN (in the “blogroll” for now, it will grow), and [tag][/tag] authentication for comments.

* Note WRT OpenID auth: The OpenID plugin I'm using doesn't seem to play well with [tag]ClaimID[/tag] identities – when you post and authenticate at the same time, it works fine. If you try to post when already logged in, something breaks and it goes into an eternal redirect loop.