Premature standardization is the root of all evil. 看看CORBA，J2EE，SOAP，XML配置，对比JSON，YMAL，POJO，还有这次Google发布的Protocol Buffer，工程师越来越多的会用接近最简洁处理方式的方法来描述和处理问题。这些是从实际工程中得来的经验。 - MJiA
Y'all should definitely check it out. It's going to be consuming all the cycles in this section of the twitosphere for the next few days if not more. It's very good, unique, wish I had thought of it. - Dave Winer
@Josh: Sort of. If you go to http://whoisi.com/logininfo it gives you a link to save that is basically like logging in (recreates the cookie, etc). That's just for knowing who you're following, though. Since it's wiki-ish, the profiles don't really belong to anyone. Or at least, that's how I understand it. - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
DeWitt, I don't know that may be all it is. I just started playing with it an hour or so ago. - Dave Winer
Something is going terribly wrong though. I'm trying to add profiles for other people and it keeps saying "that url is already associated with...". I think it may have to do with adding FriendFeed feeds. Not sure why though. - Brandon Titus
This is starting to REALLLLLY bug me. There is a flippin API (http://code.google.com/apis/so...) that will go out and discover all my sites. Stop telling people/me to add them manually and instead give them/me the option to add the sites that have already been discovered. More click, less type. :-L - Erica Baker
Erica, I never heard of that API. Is there an executive summary of it. Do website owners have to do something to support it? Also whoisi is just one guy doing it as a labor of love. Let's cut him some slack, eh? He doesn't have $5 million like the FF guys do. - Dave Winer
You don't need $5 million dollars to make use of a free API. Executive summary: "The Social Graph API makes information about the public connections between people on the Web easily available and useful for developers. Developers can query this public information to offer their users dramatically streamlined "add friends" functionality and other useful features." - Erica Baker
The social graph API also uses the Social Graph Node Mapper open source project to generate canonical urls for sites (e.g. what's the user profile page, where are the feeds, etc): http://code.google.com/p/googl... Patches welcome - Adewale Oshineye
Thanks for all the information about Google's API. Seems to have killed the discussion on whoisi.com, which is still quite interesting. I was wonder if it has an API -- kind of like the one in FriendFeed. How frequently does whoisi poll its RSS feeds? - Dave Winer
I try and early adopt as much as the next guy but Whoisi couldn't be more unintuitive. It's as if they're trying to make it cumbersome to use....and they provide as few clues to it's functionality as possible. You think it will succeed why? - Michael J. Pratt
I saw the note in your writeup, but Python example scripts aren't going to do it for me. How often do you poll? If it's often enough I won't have to use your API. Also -- you might want to consider implementing the server site of the weblogs.com ping API. That way I can ping you when my feed changes, you can read it, and we can accomplish virtually instant updating. That would probably be the most sensible approach. Also consider implementing the Twitter API, that way you don't have to write docs. :-) - Dave Winer
Also if you implement the Twitter API you'll get instant compatibility with lots of software, and the blessings of lots of developers. If you want to discuss offline, send me an email at dave dot winer at gmail dot com. - Dave Winer
It's certainly something that I've been working on in my spare time and isn't as polished as FriendFeed. I did most of the original design and thinking on it including the look and feel before I even saw FriendFeed. The fact that they ended up looking about the same is chance. - Christopher Blizzard
On the API front, there's a lot left to do and I never finished writing docs for it. Sorry if there are similar things that I could be taking advantage of, but I was more interested in the human side of the equation. This is at least 50% experiment for me to find out if people can do for feeds + following what Wikipedia has done for general information. That's why it's human-intensive. I want people who care, not just robots. - Christopher Blizzard
I wonder if Feedly is using the Google Social Graph? It authenticates via Google and it sure knew a lot about me very quickly. I would use whoisi to get a certain kind of info about someone. A social graph search, I guess. The wiki element will make it interesting (or fail very fast). - Leo Laporte
Had someone notify me about my page at http://whoisi.com/p/836 pretty cool to have gotten a 3 digit id. I'm just randomly checking new id's by changing them in the URL. Got one where it showed a new site loading. They're almost up to 1200. Wondering if my 3 digit id will be as coveted as my 7 digit ICQ#. - Mark Krynsky
@Mark: 7 digit ICQ, nice. I have a 6 digit now. I HAD a 5 digit way back when, but I lost the info for the account and couldn't get it back. - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
Chris, have you setup a place where we can report bugs? Perhaps a whoisi FF room? Also, my current biggest concern is that there are no controls for rampant vandalism. It appears I can easily add a site or remove sites from anybody's page. - Mark Krynsky
I have no reason to acctually enter all of my stuff into Whoisi.com, purely because I can just as easily add my friendfeed rss feed, and a few other feeds that I want perticular interest to, and be done with it - Chacha via twhirl
@Mark: You can leave a comment in my blog if you want if you're having issues. Would love to know sites that do or don't work. I have a post about whoisi up there and how it all works. - Christopher Blizzard
I hate the constant captcha though. For God's sake don't ever build any new websites without openid support. - Shivanand Velmurugan
The constant captchas keep the abuse at least _somewhat_ limited. :) I also need to figure out what openid really means for the site. I've poked at it a tiny tiny bit. - Christopher Blizzard
cool site, no login; interesting. Will have to play more tomorrow. - Stuart Forsyth
I just turned off refreshing because twitter is in a fit. Again. And when it is everything else gets slow. I even have an SQL query that I run from time to time to clean out the bad data that twitter generates. I wonder how many of these sites include code just to handle twitter crapping itself a few times a day? - Christopher Blizzard
I've been checking it out, the core idea is certainly is very interesting. question is how quick can it add features? - Samuel Bostock
