Folksr is here - again! Distributed votings using Microformats
posted: January 16th, 2008 · by: Sven
Folksr is an application for distributed votings using Microformats and OpenID. It’s not only cool, it’s also highly experimental.
After I’ve published an inital, experimental version of folksr in 2006 its progress has pretty much stalled in 2007. I’ve received some very interesting feedback and learned some intersting bits about distributed votings though.
Now I’ve finally come around to resurrect folksr from its comatose state. I’ve done a complete rewrite and changed some of the way it works to incorporate various learnings from the first, experimental version. For now I’ve tried to resort to the simplest-thing-that-ever-could work and omitted everything that I felt is not necessary to get a simple, yet useful tool going.
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posted: March 8th, 2007 · by: Sven
When I migrated my blog to Mephisto the other day I jumped at the chance and marked my contact data up as a hCard microformat (which is placed at the bottom of the right column).
Looking for something completely different (namely their blog ping service) I accidentally stumbled across Technorati’s super cool hCard to vCard service.
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posted: June 14th, 2006 · by: Sven
These are the 3 most important things that I’ll need to be change next in folksr.de.
Read the rest of this entryFirst lessons learned: feedback about folksr
posted: June 8th, 2006 · by: Sven
Today I showed folksr.de to some friends of mine and watched them trying to get a vote placed. I’ve been actually terrified about the usability of some free blogging engines out there.
But it’s been instructive about how folksr.de. Here’s what I learned.
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posted: June 8th, 2006 · by: Sven
Hey, folksr (my experimatal app for distributed votings using microformats) has now its own domain: folksr.de!
It has been donated by the folks over at My-Lands. We've been talking about it for a while and they are interested in this project.
Thanks!
Distributed votings using microformats
posted: June 5th, 2006 · by: Sven
Ladies and gentlemen … please … let me introduce to you … an experimental application for … distributed, webwide votings
Now, what’s that??
Well, first of all, it’s fun - at least, it is to me ;) What the application does is: it collects votes that are entirely spread over the web, published in a really simple way.
These days everybody who knows what a blog is also knows what “distributed discussions” are through the trackback lists below blog posts - a mechanism that has played its role in changing the web, making blogs as popular as they are and thus pushing technologies that aim at the so called long tail.
I’ve been stumbling over microformats about half a year ago or so, read through the wiki, got totally thrilled and since have been lurking the mailinglist. I’ve since wanted to check out the idea to use the VoteLinks microformat to resemble what’s been called “distributed discussion” to a system that allows for distributed votings.
Now, over the time I’ve been able put something together.
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