MicroID Development

The claimID blog noticed MicroID was recently added to the Laconica project:

I saw today that Mike Cochrane added MicroID support to the open source micro-blogging project, Laconica, a few days ago. His own ‘tweet’ or ‘dent’ about the patch is at Identi.ca and sure enough, his account was auto-verified on his claimID page.

Good stuff Mike.

Another win for MicroID - and so Identi.ca is duly added to our list of Known MicroID Publishers. However, in actuality, any Laconica installation is now MicroID enabled. As more of these sites come online, please let us know and we’ll get them listed as well.

MyBlogLog has just started publishing MicroIDs (and FOAF) for member pages at http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/username.

And…

WeeWar has also started publishing MicroIDs and some XFN.  You can see Alexander Kohlhofer’s profile at http://weewar.com/user/alex.

Great work!

In a post this morning, Digg announces MicroID publication on all their user profiles:

Digg already supports many of the open standards that let you use your data on sites other than Digg, including RSS, OPML, and hCard. We use RDF to embed the Creative Commons public domain dedication into each page. Just this week, we added MicroID, a Microformat that lets you prove to other services that you own your Digg user profile. We’ll be adding more open standards, such as OpenID, APML, OAuth, and XFN, in the coming months.

A big week for MicroID.

Plaxo has just pushed live their MicroID implementation at myplaxo.com.

claimID has the first announcement:

Another notch on the MicroID belt.

Today we add Plaxo to the list of Known MicroID Publishers. Welcome, Plaxo! And thanks Joseph!

You can see it in action in the head of any page with the pattern http://NICKNAME.myplaxo.com/.

Plaxo will create and publish a MicroID for each of your verified email addresses in your account. You need to visit your settings page and claim your NICKNAME.

Based on some feedback we received from Evan Prodromou on the discussion list back in August, we have updated the MicroID Internet-Draft. The new version is draft-miller-microid-01 and it is available both at microid.org and ietf.org.

Antono Vasiljev alerts us to his MicroID Gem for Ruby:

Thank you Antonio!

Via Terrell Russell, news of a MicroID module for Drupal

I’ve been working with Tane Piper over the last couple days over IRC tweaking his improvements to his Drupal MicroID module (getting it Version .3 compatible).

He has implemented node-level and comment-level MicroIDs that appear both in the meta tags of the page and are then rendered into the node divs and comment divs directly via jQuery.

The jQuery is fired via javascript after the DOM is loaded, so currently, DOM-unaware spiders/parsers will not be able to see the node and comment-level MicroIDs. That said, I’m not aware of any MicroID parsers that aren’t working only at the page level (full URL, not sub-content *on* the page).

Additionally, the Drupal-generated user profile pages have MicroIDs.

His implementation is live on his site - Digital Spaghetti.

His code can be found on the Drupal site - Drupal MicroID module.

Great news! Download the Drupal MicroID module here.

By popular demand, we have submitted the MicroID specification as an Internet-Draft. Eventually this effort may result in publication of an Informational RFC defining the technology. Please send feedback to the mailing list and we’ll update or clarify the spec accordingly.

Jim Walker was kind enough to create a perl module for MicroID, which you can now download from our code repository.

31d9367f8535ba0a667ad970b24d30f3  MicroID-0.01.tar.gz

Thank you to Jim for his work on this Module!

MediaUK, the UK media directory, has enabled support of MicroID on their site.  This will allow people who have MediaUK profiles to effortlessly transfer their reputation to services like ClaimID or Wink - or anyone else that consumes MicroID’s.  Congrats to MediaUK on this implementation - it seems like a great match for the service.