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A comment on the idea "Add the following URLs to Soocial's API?" in Soocial:

The CSV idea was put up for just a quick grab of names (i.e. for a rapid gui to get the names and load the rest of the information as the user requests it). The PUT idea is a bit more dangerous, and will need figuring out. Otherwise I may just have to write a .vcf -> Soocial XML Contact (not hard, just something more to do). – Colin Shea, on August 28, 2008 18:58

Colin Shea marked one of Simon de Haan's replies in Soocial as useful. Simon de Haan replied to the idea "Add the following URLs to Soocial's API?".

Colin Shea shared an idea in Soocial on August 20, 2008 15:48:

Add the following URLs to Soocial's API?

I already sent this to the support monkey, sorry for repeating myself but this seemed like a better place to post this, anyways.

Would it be possible to add the following URLs to Soocial's API?

• /api/contacts.vcf


• /api/contacts.txt


• /api/contacts/ID.vcf

contacts.vcf would return all the contacts in one large vCard file. contacts.txt (or maybe .csv) would return all the contacts, but only the first name, last name, and ID. So:

1002,Smith,John


1003,Doe,Jane


etc

and contacts/ID.vcf would return that contact as a vcard. This would also be a PUT-capable spot, allowing the developer/client app to HTTP PUT a vcard and have it overwrite that one contact. (I thought about having contacts.vcf a put-capable url, and it makes it easy for someone to screw up if that means overwriting the user's whole contact list.) The vcard retrivial shouldn't take a long time as you already give the vcard in the XML returned from the API, so I don't think it would be too long for it to be implemented, but the PUT side may take a bit longer. Oh well :)

Colin Shea replied on June 20, 2008 01:00 to the discussion "PBwiki as a note manager" in PBwiki:

Great! Thanks for the help :)

Colin Shea replied on June 20, 2008 00:49 to the discussion "PBwiki as a note manager" in PBwiki:

I haven't signed up just yet, I'd like to as two more questions. Is there a setting to have all new pages private by default? Also, is there some type of 'wysiwyg' editor (but not fully). What I mean is that some editors I've used don't actually have bold text, but when it recognizes a list (i.e. a series of lines with whitespace and then a * then the actual text) it would change those *'s to a bulleted list. 'Smart' editing is what it could be considered. If you don't have that, do you at least of Markdown/Textile support?

Colin Shea started following the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter.

Colin Shea replied on June 20, 2008 00:41 to the idea "Shorten tinyurl's even further." in Twitter:

Well, this is a great idea but # shouldn't be used - what about hashtags? Otherwise, this is a great idea.

Colin Shea started a conversation in PBwiki on June 20, 2008 00:38:

PBwiki as a note manager

Is PBwiki a good idea for keeping your personal notes in? Currently. I'm using SpringNote which is note-taking oriented. I wondering if PBwiki is a good alternative to that or should I stick with SpringNote as my online note taking application of choice? Would PBwiki v2 be better oriented for this?

Colin Shea started following the idea "Shorten tinyurl's even further." in Twitter.

Colin Shea marked one of Larry Halff's replies in Gnolia as useful. Larry Halff replied to the question "Is there a way to get all information for a url (from everyone)?".

Colin Shea replied on June 05, 2008 22:14 to the question "Is there a way to get all information for a url (from everyone)?" in Gnolia:

Thanks! I'm not at my computer right now, though I can't wait to try it out! Thanks :)

evaryont asked a question in Gnolia on June 04, 2008 02:55:

Is there a way to get all information for a url (from everyone)?

I'm thinking about creating a bookmarking helper, one that would provide sample tags, an aggregated rating, a sample description and a sample title. I haven't been able to find anything for computer-reading. The closest I've found is Roots, but that's for humans and I'd like to have the helper aggregate multiple sites (del.icio.us also). The API does allow searching for a URL, but only through a user's bookmarks, not everyone's.