Fantastic: The Idiot's guide to Webfinger
I'm excited about the future of web identification. This is the blueprint for sure.
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Sam Harrelson currently lives in Asheville, NC and is a Middle School Science and Robotics Teacher at Spartanburg Day School in Spartanburg, SC.
You can find out more about what Sam and his students are doing in the classroom at http://griffinscience.com.
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Back to the Finger Future
Back in the day you could, given somebody's email address, type finger email@example.com and get some information about that person, whatever they wanted to share: perhaps their office location, phone number, URL, current activities, etc.
The finger protocol, sadly, died.
Fast-forward to Web 2.0. We're currently bickering about how we do interop between all these social web services, and even how we represent a person's identity. The two main identity identifer camps are email addresses and URLs.
via code.google.com
In another year, we'll all be back to using this forgotten standard.
VAX and gopher next up for resurrection?
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