Egofolio

New feed for friends

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:40:05 -0400

I got a new feature online recently; It’s a feed that combines the feeds of all of the members in your friend list. I also cleaned up the member page a bit to pull all of the feed icons together and combine available actions into the “I want to…” button.

Got feedback? Let me know using the contact form.

Get in touch with other members

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:51:37 -0400

EgoFolio got a new feature this morning: messaging! Now, any member can get in touch directly with other members through the messaging interface, which shows up below the Friends panel.

The interface is fairly straightforward. You can send a message to anyone, anytime you’re logged in. You can also edit/delete any previous message you’ve sent.

And, of course, there’s an RSS feed available for your message stream so you can pull that data into any platform you would like. I have opted not to include it in the member’s combined EgoFolio streams, because messages are really information directed towards a person, not created by that person.

Your egofolio is now an OpenID Delegate

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:58:00 -0500

I really like the potential of OpenID to lighten the password load on various applications, which is why I use it on Egofolio!

I REALLY like the concept of OpenID delegates. A delegate is a URL with special code in the header that will redirect an openid login request to your actual OpenID provider. You can use your delegate URL as your identity on OpenID enabled sites. The upside is that if you ever decide to change your OpenID provider, you can simply modify your delegate URL to point to the new provider and never skip a beat! Any other information on your delegate URL remains unchanged.

Starting now, all Egofolio member pages can be used as a delegate URL. Why would you want this? If you browse to the OpenID URL of most providers, you’re presented with just a barebones site, or even just a couple of lines of text. :( If you use your Egofolio URL to log in to other OpenID enabled sites, then people wanting to find out more about you will land on your Egofolio profile with’s lots of information about you.

If you experience problems using your Egofolio site as a delegate then please let me know.

P.S. It seems that verisignlabs members need to do a bit of work to enable delegates with their OpenID’s. See https://pip.verisignlabs.com/seatbelt.do for moe information.

Get in touch with us!

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:12:02 -0500

The contact form is now alive and kicking! :) I had to work out a mail bug on the server side. So please, get in touch and let me know what you think of the site! What features would you like to see? What’s broken?

http://www.egofolio.com/about/contact/

View feed items directly in the page.

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:55:02 -0500

i coded up a new feature tonight that I think adds a lot of functionality to the page. The most recent feed items for any link (with a news feed) can now be viewed directly in the main page.

I cheated a little bit and just used Javascript to control things so anyone attempting to view the content with Javascript disabled gets a big fat nothing! :( I should hide the feature completly from non-javascript viewers.

Also, I’m planning on cleaning up the look of the links, they’re getting cluttered…

It's Alive!

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:28:38 -0500

So I wanted to learn a little bit about website devopment… Egofolio is the idea I had to give my efforts a purpose.

At it’s core, Egofolio is a tool that can help people keep track of all of the content they generate across the internet. Many sites use RSS feeds to transmit updates from their members. Egofolio can be pointed at all of the profiles that belong to you and combine all of these feeds to provide one central point to get the latest information about you.

That’s the basic idea. We’ll see how it evolves…

First!

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:33:16 -0500

Just Testing