I’ve finally finished up the OpenID signup for Rosebleed. The workflow is what you’d expect – OpenID box on the login form, if the given URL isn’t recognized then it redirects to the signup form and prepopulates it with the sreg fields. I did notice a strange behaviour in OpenID; I’m not yet certain if [...]

I’ve been using hKit recently for several projects, among them trying to figure out why Rosebleed’s user profiles won’t import at Satisfaction. In testing, I found that Technorati profiles also don’t import. I tracked it down to two separate issues: Technorati uses DoubleClick advertising, which uses document.write() to drop new scripts into the page. This [...]

I’ve been updating the social networking features on Rosebleed. Most of the changes are not immediately visible, but they’re nifty: I’ve rolled out microformat markup all over the site – user profiles are now hcard-enabled and the friendslist is marked up with hCard+XFN. I also implemented FOAF profiles with autodiscovery, much like that provided by [...]