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Ident Engine: Put Activity Streams on Your Site Easily

ReadWriteWeb  Oct 06 09

Most of us have profiles on a wide variety of services these days. Thankfully, most of these profiles are available in machine-readable microformats like hCard or XFN (XHTML Friends Network). For developers, Google's Social Graph API makes discovering these profiles easier, though this is still a relatively complicated process. Now, however, Ident Engine, a new open-source JavaScript library that finds and aggregates user profiles and related activity streams, makes this process a lot easier.

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The service pulls in data from LinkedIn, Flickr, identi.ca, Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed and numerous other services. Full story...



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