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Dan Brickley replied on November 03, 2009 19:58 to the idea "Where is the Miro API?" in Participatory Culture Foundation (Miro):

Any news on the API? I want to be able to drive Miro from external scripts (so I can control it through the 'network via XMPP, for smart phone / smart table etc EPGs etc...)

Dan Brickley started following the idea "Where is the Miro API?" in Participatory Culture Foundation (Miro).

Dan Brickley replied on July 15, 2009 14:47 to the question "Is there a Google groups API?" in Google:

I'd love to see OAuth-mediated acess to some fairly simple things, like the list of groups a user is in, groups they're active in, and for groups and users that want to expose it, the group membership. This would be useful for rapidly building a user profile of someone, knowing only their group memberships...

Dan Brickley started following the question "Is there a Google groups API?" in Google.

Dan Brickley replied on November 29, 2008 19:54 to the question "jar jar jar..." in xmlcalabash.com:

After a bit of googling, i just threw the saxon jars into lib/ and used

java -classpath $( echo lib/*.jar . | sed 's/ /:/g') com.xmlcalabash.drivers.Mai
n xpl/pipe2.xpl

seems fine. I wasn't sure I needed them all (not being familiar with saxon) but I guess I do...

Dan Brickley reported a problem in xmlcalabash.com on November 29, 2008 19:12:

missing links from /extension/

404 link to http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/extension... and http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/extension... from http://xmlcalabash.com/extension/

Dan Brickley asked a question in xmlcalabash.com on November 29, 2008 19:08:

jar jar jar...

what's the sanest way of adding all those Saxon jars to my classpath? (outside of using Ant...)

Dan Brickley started following the idea "Supporting daily commutes" in Dopplr.

Dan Brickley started following the idea "Supporting daily commutes" in Dopplr.

Dan Brickley marked one of Abi's replies in Mozilla as useful. Abi replied to the problem "Source code link from wiki homepage is giving 500 error".

Dan Brickley started following the idea "User profiles = grouping commands + modes" in Mozilla.

Dan Brickley started following the idea "Social Websites Messaging?" in Mozilla.

Dan Brickley replied on August 27, 2008 16:19 to the idea "Recognizing and using E-Mail Accounts contact lists from yahoo, hotmail etc." in Mozilla:

Privacy is going to be the issue here. If Ubiquity becomes, erm, ubiquitous ... it *will* be used for mischief.

Having social rating of commands is certainly helpful, but there are enough cases seen eg. in the Facebook app economy where an app gets popular by being fun and harmless, then becomes mischievous later.

Some months ago - and I still don't know how - some spammer got access to my entire Gmail contacts list, and sent a single spam to them all, with each address in the To: field. Not a pleasant experience :) If we don't come up with a privacy design here, more of that kind of thing is sure to follow.

My guess is that FOAF/XFN shared via OAuth is going to be one way this plays out... with Ubiquity commands (and other widgets) only getting access to certain subsets of the data (eg. URLs but not email addresses).

Dan Brickley replied on August 27, 2008 15:17 to the question "Command List not working?" in Mozilla:

Discussion on the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/ubiqui... (thought it would be better off here).

Adding this to .htaccess worked for some people (but not me):

AddType application/x-javascript .js

Dan Brickley reported a problem in Mozilla on August 27, 2008 14:40:

Source code link from wiki homepage is giving 500 error

http://hg.toolness.com/ubiquity-firefox linked via https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquit... is giving "500 - Internal Server Error".

Dan Brickley replied on August 27, 2008 13:57 to the question "Command List not working?" in Mozilla:

Adam, a 2nd restart didn't work for me (FF3/MacOSX). Initially I thought it had worked, then I realised I had a copy of the script in the command-editor screen. Can you confirm this isn't also the case with you?

Dan Brickley replied on August 27, 2008 13:20 to the question "Command List not working?" in Mozilla:

Actually there's two parts to this:
1.
"The command list doesn't seem to be showing new commands that I've installed and, therefore, I don't know how to delete them"

... that was also my initial reaction. Later I discovered that subscriptions are deleted from the "Subscribed Feeds" section of the about:ubiquity page, and *not* from chrome://ubiquity/content/cmdlist.html

... so you can still delete subscriptions.

2.
The real issue is that the commands aren't working at all; not only are they not listed, they don't respond.

Dan Brickley replied on August 27, 2008 12:53 to the question "Ubiquity not showing line number on error reports" in Mozilla:

Yup, at the moment I'm watching my (line-less) errors float by via Growl notifications. Could you write to the .js console too perhaps? And yes, line numbers would help.

Dan Brickley started following the question "Ubiquity not showing line number on error reports" in Mozilla.

Dan Brickley reported a problem in Mozilla on August 27, 2008 12:52:

javascript errors require a browser restart

Developing a command for Ubiquity in FF3 command-editor, I find the Ubiquity UI goes wrong following (certain kinds of?) Javascript error in my code; presumably syntax errors rather than runtime. A restart fixes it. The Ubiquity window still appears, but does not take focus or respond.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

This is Ubiquity v0.1 freshly installed today (27 Aug).