links for 2007-07-20 at LIS

user-interface - Microformats - Social Network Portability

Section on useing XFN, hCard, etc. to create a portable social network. I wrote about this idea over a year ago after a discussion we had at BarCampRDU 2006.

(tags: barcamp barcamprdu microformats xfn openid social_networks SocialSoftware)
VuFind: Home

“July 18, 2007 - Villanova University announces VuFind, a next generation library catalog, is now freely available as Open Source software.” Looks very cool. I need to spend more time with it though. Update: I just checked out the demo. This is really nice. It employs excellent faceted search with a clean interface and incorporates first stages of some social tools.(tags: opensource OPAC library2.0 faceted facets)
Notes from BarCampRdu,Part 3, Social networking, Social browsing, and Microformats at LIS :: Michael Habib

The earlier post discussing portable social networks. (Second half of the post) Two equations were discussed:
XFN + OpenID = portable network
XFN + hCard + Jabber + OpenID = ad hoc (open standards) social networks

(tags: openid microformats socialnetworking social_networks SocialSoftware barcamp barcamprdu)

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