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Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. What Browser? How to Quickly Integrate Facebook Connect Authentication in Your. How to write a Ubiquity Command. How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic - ReadWri. Let's say you're a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to candlestick makers online, or you're a journalist writing a story about blogging butchers, or maybe you've got some kind of weird baking fetish or academic interest.

Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method? We think there is. Works With Just About Anything We'll use the field of Education as our example, because there is a lot of activity there and we presume we've got more educators as readers here than butchers or candlestick makers. If you doubt that these kinds of steps could help in your line of work - check out this post, where we found the best work-related RSS feeds for Fire Inspectors and Physical Therapists, just to prove that we could. Is this post a cheat sheet? Find The Most Popular Blogs in Your Field. HOW TO: Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8 Minutes. Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity 0.1 Author Tutorial. Back to Labs/Ubiquity. Author: Aza Raskin, Blair McBride, Abimanyu Raja, Jono DiCarlo, Atul Varma In other languages If English isn't your first language feel free to read the tutorial in your own language. If it doesn't exist, feel free to jump in and translate.

The great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. WARNING: Ubiquity is still in flux. The rest of this page documents the command developer API as it currently stands in the latest released version of Ubiquity, 0.1.1. Real Time Development Ubiquity doesn't require you to restart Firefox as you develop. To open the Ubiquity command editor, summon Ubiquity (control/alt + space) and use the "command-editor" command. In the following examples, just type in this editor.

Just a Function: As Simple as it Gets Let's start with the standard programing trope: printing "Hello, World! ". In the command editor type the following: function cmd_hello_world() { displayMessage("Hello, World! ") Related Links: Beginner’s Guide to OAuth – Part II. With OAuth reaching its final draft (OAuth Core 1.0 Draft 4) last night, it is time for those of you new to the protocol to dive in and learn what it is all about. I have written in a previous post about the history behind OAuth, its use cases, and when it is (or isn’t) applicable. People seems to like my metaphor of a valet key, which John Panzer rephrased “OAuth: Your valet key for the Web”. Beginner’s Guide to OAuth – Part I Introduction This guide is intended for a technical audience with focus on implementation.

I dedicate one section to the end-user perspective which is something I expect many others will address with mockups, user interface designs, best practices guides, and of course working services. End-User Benefits OAuth allows you to share your private resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. The key used by users is usually a combination of username and password. Scope. Spread OpenID » Social Bookmarking in Plain English - Yahoo! Video. Tutorials on Microformats. Introduction Microformats are used to make Web documents smarter (HTML, XHTML, RSS, ATOM, BLOGS, XML). They don't affect how your documents are rendered by a browser. But they have a huge (positive) impact on the ability of Web applications/tools to collect, understand, and process the information in your Web pages. Microformats are tiny bits of information injected into Web pages.

When you add together the tiny bits of information over thousands or millions of Web pages, you have a mountain of valuable information that can help with searching, understanding, and processing the Web. There is a growing collection of Microformats. I have created tutorials on the core Microformats (as of early 2007). The Microformat Process Microformats are created using the scientific method: research what Nature (i.e., the Web community) is doing, understand it, and formulate a model of it (i.e., a Microformat). This is a nice, short summary of the scientific process: Science Asks Three Basic Questions. Alex Faaborg - » Microformats - Part 0: Introduction. Have you been over hearing people talk about microformats and thought to yourself “what are those?” In this post I provide a quick introduction, and discuss the various ways that microformats are changing the Web.

What are microformats? Microformats can be explained in a number of ways, but the easiest way to explain them is to just show an example. Here is my contact information in HTML: <div class=”vcard”> <span class=”fn”>Alex Faaborg</span> <div class=”org”>Mozilla</div> <div class=”adr”> <div class=”street-address”>1981 Landings Drive, Building K</div> <span class=”locality”>Mountain View</span>, <span class=”region”>CA</span>, <span class=”postal-code”>94043</span> <span class=”country-name”>United States</span> </div> <div class=”tel”>617-899-5064</div> But this isn’t just normal HTML, it is semantic HTML: This additional semantic information in the HTML is an example of the hCard microformat.

Why are microformats important? 1. 2. 3. What sites are currently using microformats? 4.