Yahoo available AX attrs - backchannel/endpoint URLs

Joseph A Holsten joseph at josephholsten.com
Thu Dec 10 04:21:33 UTC 2009


+1 to public per se public.

If embedding microformats (or rdf) into public URIs is the solution to  
pulling public data, what's the right way to push it. Most of that  
tech seems pretty focused on feeds, but it's a bit silly to imagine an  
avatar feed.
--
j

On Dec 9, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Allen Tom wrote:

> If Avatar/Profile photo and display name are considered “public”  
> data, then perhaps we could short-circuit this AX stuff by returning  
> the URL to the user’s public profile, and the RP can just use  
> microformats to extract the name/photo via hCard.
>
> Allen
>
>
> On 12/8/09 10:06 PM, "John Panzer" <john at johnpanzer.com> wrote:
>
>> For my use cases, the important things are, unscientifically,
>>
>> 1. Display name
>> 2. Avatar / photo
>> 3. Preferred link to human-readable online presence -- profile,  
>> blog, whatever strikes their fancy.
>>
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