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Friday, 7th December 2007

Thanks to OpenID and OAuth, the Open Social Web is Beginning to Emerge. My blog’s OpenID powered watchlist and “your comments” features got a write-up on Wired! Nice to know that someone has noticed them.

# 12:57 am / oauth, openid, opensocialweb, watchlist, wired

Blogmaker, a free blogging app for Django (via) “Blogmaker is a full-featured, production-quality blogging application for Django. It supports trackbacks, ping and comments with moderation and honeypot spam prevention.”

# 1:04 am / blogging, django, michael-trier, trackback

James Henstridge: OpenID 2.0. Excellent description of the new features in OpenID 2.0, including a clear explanation of directed identity and attribute exchange.

# 11:53 am / attributeexchange, directedidentity, inames, james-henstridge, openid, openid2

Unfortunately, I was shocked, horrified and moderately surprised to see that nowhere is there any mention of how to encode negative numbers. Google, I appreciate you trying to help, and I understand that this grew out of needs for Google Finance, where stock prices can never dip below zero. But there's really not that much data out there in the real world that always exists solely above the origin.

Marty Alchin

# 4:47 pm / google, google-charts, martyalchin

Google Chart API Revisited. Marty does some more digging.

# 11:59 pm / api, google-charts, martyalchin

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