Dec 04, 2006
07:33PM
Wikidentity
Wikidentity is my newest side-project, which has been keeping me busy (and silent) for the past couple of months. It is a flash based client that you can open over any web-page (similar to Ma.gnolia Roots) and it shows you hCards that are embedded in the page. An hCard is the microformat equivalent of a vcard. That is to say, its a bit of semantic markup in a webpage, that lets other machines know that the information within the markup is about a person. Usually this contains a name, URLs, contact information, photos and so on.
So Wikidentity was built not only to show you hCards on the current page, but also to index hcards from around the web, and make them searchable. It does it's best at seaming together hCards for the same person, and links that person to other people who are related. It also allows you to save that information in a format that other applications recognize, such as Address Book, and Outlook.
To try it out, head over to Wikidentity.com, where you can grab a bookmarklet, or a Firefox plugin.
If you find bugs, or have suggestions, head over to the Wikidentity Ma.gnolia group and let me know in the discussions.
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