[This message probably won't reach foaf-dev as I'm subscribed to that
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On 29 Aug 2009, at 08:57, Dan Brickley wrote:
OK here's a concrete proposal in more depth - "Dockable".
Sounds like a good idea in principle.
I'd like my photo URLs at http://photos.danbri.org or
http://flickr.danbri.org, rather than at http://flickr.com, however
much I love Flickr. I'd like my music profile and playlists to be at
http://music.danbri.org/ instead of at http://last.fm/danbri, and I'd
to be able to microblog using http://status.danbri.org/ rather than
http://identi.ca/danbri.
For sites such as these which are currently "undockable", there is
the option of setting up these subdomains and performing an HTTP 302
redirect. Unless told though, people would probably keep using the
flickr.com, etc domain names which linking to them.
Being "docked" - online or off - has many advantages, so many that in
the real world, undocking and moving your boat elsewhere can be a big
hassle.
One such that immediately springs to mind it that if you did decide
to point photos.danbri.org from Flickr to a different service, you'd
probably still break a lot of URLs because the other service would
almost certainly use a different URL structure.
Dockable microblogging - so what's the story here for StatusNet and
microblogging?
As I understand it -- and I'm not claiming to speak for StatusNet/
status.net -- that's sort of the idea of status.net (which is not to
be confused with StatusNet). It's going to be a hosting platform for
microblogging sites at your choice of domain name. At any point you
could presumably get a dump of the data, pull it into a different
installation of StatusNet and repoint the domain name at your new
installation.
--
Toby A Inkster
<mailto:[email protected]>
<http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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