It’s Christmas tomorrow, which makes it the perfect time to mention two easter eggs [1] in me.edu.au.
Firstly, RSS output support for your activities. This lets someone else subscribe to what you are doing on me.edu.au. To see this go to your public profile (mine is http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian) and then append “/rss” to the address (eg, http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian/rss).
Secondly, APML support. Again, go to your public profile, and then append “/apml” (eg http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian/apml). This is generated from the list of interest you enter, and theoretically can be used by applications to show you things you might be interested in. However - as Ma.gnolia said when they announced APML support:
These are still early days for APML, and as such there aren’t a lot of service providers supporting it and even fewer applications that can make use of this data. So, the hope in providing it for Ma.gnolia is that it will help stimulate development of APML-powered services that can offer us new ways of looking at what we do as we travel the web.
That’s a sentiment we can echo here.
So there you go - two presents for you from me.edu.au. We aim to have a new release with a few bug fixes early in the new year. In the mean time, let us know what you think, either here or in the me-edu-au community.
[1] I guess they don’t really meet the definition of an easter egg, since they aren’t jokes. However, they are features which aren’t documented anywhere else as far as I know.
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Nick - this is great news. Congrats on your APML implementation.
As a fellow Australian, and co-founder of the APML workgroup, it is gratifying to see local initiatives catching onto the idea of attention ownership so early.
Look forward to hearing more from me.edu.au in the new year.
Chris
Well done Nick - I think the rss feature is a great one. Well done - do you ever sleep.
Merry Christmas.
Kate
They look good Nick. I like the RSS one
Can you monitor a community with rss Nick?
Definitely not jokes - a wonderful Christmas present thanks Nick!
And is it too greedy to ask for:
http://me.edu.au/c/me-edu-au/rss (rss of a community’s activity)
and even
http://me.edu.au/c/recent/rss (recently added communities)
http://me.edu.au/p/recent/rss (recently added people)
Still getting my head around apml.
Thanks again. Pru
Re: RSS support for communities.
Yes, I think it’s a good idea.
Speaking of monitoring communities - would love to chat to you about some other ideas for the new year when you get back into it Nick - would you mind dropping me a line via email or phone (listed on the website) when you get a chance?
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