And the walls come down? Google and Facebook have joined Dataportability.org!

This is a huge step towards an open, interoperable social web; Google and Facebook are probably the two largest collectors and holders of data (social and otherwise) on the web, and they have been among the most reticient about sharing their data.

Social networking updates on Rosebleed

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 LiveJournal (for [...]

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Roosenmaallen.com is owned and operated by me, Eddie Roosenmaallen.
My aim is to gather the collective knowledge of humanity; failing that, I’d like to maintain an interesting sort of site about the things that interest me - technology [the web, social networking, microformats, DHTML, and a bunch of other buzzwords], philosophy [spirituality, the Meaning of Life, [...]