webfinger enabled for all gmail accounts with public profiles
Brad Fitzpatrick
Eran Hammer-Lahav
One correction, the second step should be:
curl http://www.google.com/s2/webfinger/?q=acct%3Abradfitz%40gmail.com
Google can decide to support your un-escaped / un-prefixed version, but it must support the above for compliance.
EHL
Brad Fitzpatrick
James Walker
http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from ? We've discussed
something virtually identical for OStatus [1] - which would just
provide an href to the PuSH-enabled atom feed for a user. (I'd
semi-arbitrarily labeled it - http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/publish).
It looks to me like this is identical to your new href. Correct? Is
yours temporary ? Or "final" as far as Buzz's implementation...
This is exciting to see all this stuff coming together so quickly...
-James
[1] http://status.net/wiki/OStatus
--
James Walker :: http://walkah.net/
Brad Fitzpatrick
James Walker
you need it...
I'd like to humbly offer up the ostatus.org domain as a "neutral"
holding ground... we've specifically been working at this with the
full intention to have it be completely vendor/platform neutral. (and
OStatus rather than OpenMicroBlogging - 'cause neither StatusNet nor
Buzz are particularly wed to the 'micro' piece). Though, tbh, we
didn't know Buzz was gonna come out first *cough* cone of silence
*cough*.
In the meantime, it's easy enough for us to consider the two equivalent.
Markus Thielmann
I'm currently working on a small tool with webfinger support. I guess
I should ask this in the Buzz forum, but since you brought the topic
up:
Is there any chance we might get a <link rel=”me”
href=”acct:us...@gmail.com” /> tag in the Google profile pages, like
suggested by Eran on [1]?
It would make my life so much easier :-)
[1] http://hueniverse.com/2009/08/making-the-case-for-a-new-acct-uri-scheme/
Steve Ivy
from yesterday. I wrote a bit about it here [1] and here [2]. I think
having a way to link to your status updates is a much needed hook.
Brad - how soon until we can point that updates-from link to a
different service?
--Steve
[1] http://www.monkinetic.com/2009/11/status-autodiscovery-relstatus.html
[2] http://www.monkinetic.com/2010/02/googles-new-status-updates-.html
On Feb 11, 1:18 pm, James Walker <wal...@walkah.net> wrote:
> Good to know! Now... where's that community to make said decision when
> you need it...
>
> I'd like to humbly offer up the ostatus.org domain as a "neutral"
> holding ground... we've specifically been working at this with the
> full intention to have it be completely vendor/platform neutral. (and
> OStatus rather than OpenMicroBlogging - 'cause neither StatusNet nor
> Buzz are particularly wed to the 'micro' piece). Though, tbh, we
> didn't know Buzz was gonna come out first *cough* cone of silence
> *cough*.
>
> In the meantime, it's easy enough for us to consider the two equivalent.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick <bradf...@google.com> wrote:
> > It was a last minute decision between a dozen of us with a dozen different
> > ideas of what it could/should be. In the end we decided to make up
> > something (like what you see there) and open it up for community discussion.
> > We won't remove it from our user XRD docs, so it's stable in the sense that
> > you can rely on it being there if people start building apps for it.
> > But we'll add the "correct" one once the community decides what the correct
> > one is. We're not pretending that our 5-minute-discussion made-up one is
> > the final answer, unless that's convenient and good enough for everybody.
>
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:54 AM, James Walker <wal...@walkah.net> wrote:
>
> >> Brad, this is awesome. One quick question : How stable is
> >>http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from? We've discussed
> >> something virtually identical for OStatus [1] - which would just
> >> provide an href to the PuSH-enabled atom feed for a user. (I'd
> >> semi-arbitrarily labeled it -http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/publish).
> >> It looks to me like this is identical to your new href. Correct? Is
> >> yours temporary ? Or "final" as far as Buzz's implementation...
>
> >> This is exciting to see all this stuff coming together so quickly...
>
> >> -James
>
> >> [1]http://status.net/wiki/OStatus
>
> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick <bradf...@google.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Now that Google Buzz has launched, I wanted to give an update on
> >> > WebFinger....
> >> > We've now enabled WebFinger for all gmail/google profiles with public
> >> > profiles.
> >> > That is, if you already have a profile like
> >> >http://www.google.com/profile/FOO, then webfinger is enabled for
> >> > F...@gmail.com. Note that F...@gmail.com might not be an SMTP-enabled
> >> > email
> >> > address... it's just an account identifier. Google Profile usernames
> >> > come
> >> > out of the same namespace as gmail email accounts, but may not
> >> > email-enabled.
> >> > For instance, if I log onto a website and tell you my email address is
> >> > bradf...@gmail.com , here's how you'd resolve it:
> >> > bradfitz@mini:~$ curlhttps://gmail.com/.well-known/host-meta
> >> > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> >> > <!-- NOTE: this host-meta end-point is a pre-alpha work in progress.
> >> > Don't
> >> > rely on it. -->
> >> > <!-- Please follow the list athttp://groups.google.com/group/webfinger
> >> > -->
> >> > <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0'
> >> > xmlns:hm='http://host-meta.net/xrd/1.0'>
> >> > <hm:Host xmlns='http://host-meta.net/xrd/1.0'>gmail.com</hm:Host>
> >> > <Link rel='lrdd'
> >> > template='http://www.google.com/s2/webfinger/?q={uri}'>
> >> > <Title>Resource Descriptor</Title>
> >> > </Link>
> >> > </XRD>
> >> > bradfitz@mini:~$ curl
> >> > http://www.google.com/s2/webfinger/?q=bradf...@gmail.com
> >> > <?xml version='1.0'?>
> >> > <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0'>
> >> > <Subject>acct:bradf...@gmail.com</Subject>
> >> > <Alias>http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz</Alias>
> >> > <Link rel='http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0'
> >> > href='http://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/'/>
> >> > <Link rel='http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page'
> >> > href='http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz'type='text/html'/>
> >> > <Link rel='http://microformats.org/profile/hcard'
> >> > href='http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz'type='text/html'/>
> >> > <Link rel='http://gmpg.org/xfn/11'
> >> > href='http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz'type='text/html'/>
> >> > <Link rel='http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/provider'
> >> > href='http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz'/>
> >> > <Link rel='describedby' href='http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz'
> >> > type='text/html'/>
> >> > <Link rel='describedby'
>
> >> > href='http://s2.googleusercontent.com/webfinger/?q=bradfitz%40gmail.com&...
> >> > type='application/rdf+xml'/>
> >> > <Link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from'
>
> >> > href='http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/115863474911002159675/public/posted'
> >> > type='application/atom+xml'/>
> >> > </XRD>
>
> >> > So that's the end-to-end mapping from user identifier
> >> > (bradf...@gmail.com,
> >> > which users might call an "email address") to my real-time enabled
> >> > (PubSubHubbub) updates stream. All using decentralized, standardized,
> >> > open,
> >> > Free, free. protocols. I'm pretty excited about this. This isn't the
> >> > end,
> >> > though... we're just getting started. DeWitt said it best here:
>
> >> > http://www.google.com/buzz/dclinton/XxER6oP4WGe/The-best-way-to-get-a...
Brad Fitzpatrick
Ha! James and I were just discussing something similar to rel=updates-
from yesterday. I wrote a bit about it here [1] and here [2]. I think
having a way to link to your status updates is a much needed hook.
Brad - how soon until we can point that updates-from link to a
different service?
Maybe I can interest Noogler Joseph Smarr into doing it. :-)
Brad Fitzpatrick
This is so great, thanks to everyone who is making this possible.
I'm currently working on a small tool with webfinger support. I guess
I should ask this in the Buzz forum, but since you brought the topic
up:
Is there any chance we might get a <link rel=”me”
href=”acct:us...@gmail.com” /> tag in the Google profile pages, like
suggested by Eran on [1]?
It would make my life so much easier :-)
