Comments on: Apple source code pointing to social features?

By: Ryan Price

Ryan Price — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:15:45 +0000

What do you say we write a desktop app that does this? if Adium and iChat can store people’s AIM names in your address book, then can’t we store their web address and feed (is this a shortcoming of vCard?) in said database. How about a feedreader that tells me if the feed author is currently signed in to AIM (or IRC or Jabber or Skype)?

By: a work on process » links for 2007-11-18

a work on process » links for 2007-11-18 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:20:49 +0000

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By: Buzz Andersen

Buzz Andersen — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:09:16 +0000

I’d go with the “remnants of a good idea” theory.

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:54:47 +0000

For what it’s worth, that last anonymous comment was me. And here’s a Safari screenshot:

http://decafbad.com/2007/11/friends.jpg

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:47:11 +0000

There actually is some FOAF in Safari for feed reading, and it’s not Leopard only. That is, I’ve seen this in Tiger also.

Try visiting something like a LiveJournal feed in Safari:

http://deus-x.livejournal.com/data/atom

In the right-hand column, toward the bottom, you should see a “Friends” section after a few seconds. That’s Safari actually chasing down my LJ FOAF file and pulling out my contacts.

Not entirely all that useful, but it’s there.

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Integriert Apple soziale Features in Leopard? : agenturblog.de — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:58:38 +0000

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By: Gernot

Gernot — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:30:38 +0000

There might be more to PubSub than Apple has released. Ever wondered about the name? “Publish and Subscribe”?

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:14:05 +0000

@Tom: Well, I guess I’m mostly interested in the notion of a “person” showing up in the PubSub framework… especially since there’s this notion of a feed being authored by a person, and then using FOAF to identify your friends by URL… it’s just all too convenient with a locus of the Address Book to seem accidental… but yeah, the integration of feeds in iTunes, iPhoto and iLife is a good one…!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:10:27 +0000

I don’t think that using AddressBook to store the location of a feed indicates that AddressBook could become a feed reader, I think this probably has more to do with .Mac + iLife.

iPhoto has options for subscribing to photocasts (aka feeds), which from what I can remember, you had to add manually. If AddressBook had a list of feeds (photocasts) then a feed reading application could be autopopulated

Still it’s interesting stuff.