Symphonious

I've always considered Technorarti Tags to be annoying clutter on pages because people are far more likely to search Google for a keyword than they are to look up a particular Technorati tag and the million slight variants of it. I've just noticed however, that you don't actually need to clutter up you page with unsightly tags to get into the tag list. Take for instance the Ephox technorati tag. I don't tag my posts, and yet my Oh Happy Day! post is the top entry.

A Google search for Ephox however, turns up all the posts in Technorati courtesy of returning Planet Ephox, plus all the official Ephox pages - far more useful for learning about the company.

Of course, now on top of the tags, we're getting those annoying, digg this and email this links. I'm quite capable of doing that myself, stop distracting me from your actual message.

I've been on holidays for the past four weeks (life is tough sometimes) and away from internet connectivity so I've been blissfully unaware of what's been happening in the tech world. Catching up with the RSS feeds this morning though, I've discovered many wonderful things:

• Robert Dawson has started with Ephox. I'd forgotten he was starting while I was away.
• Someone in the engineering team managed to work out how to add Robert to Planet Ephox. I left instructions on the various systems I'd set up before I left but this is the first time someone else has had to try to follow them.
• Our integration with the open source Alfresco CMS has been released on LiveWorks! There are two great things about this, first that it's out and second that it's another system that someone else has successfully picked up.
• New releases of some of our products have gone out and the change logs have been posted to the Ephox Releases blog!
  • Downside, for some reason the major update to our IWWCM Integration didn't get a mention on the releases blog, could someone fix that ASAP please?
• The main Ephox website now has a link to LiveWorks! Yay! Now we just need to add a link to the releases blog.

The best part though, is that I still have another two weeks holidays. I'll be back in the Ephox office on the 5th of February.

I've been playing around with OpenID on the few occasions I've had internet access over the Christmas break and have it set up, but not ideally. Currently, everything points to http://www.symphonious.net/id/ as the OpenID URL, but server and delegate. Ideally I'd like my identity URL to be just http://www.symphonious.net/ and the server ad http://www.symphonious.net/id/ but I'm not familiar enough with the whole process to make it work.

Mostly I've followed Sam Ruby's instructions, but the process was done in a few different sessions following a few other explanations of OpenID, but I think it matches what Sam describes.

Given that there's not really anything out there that accepts OpenID that I want to use, it's not really that beneficial so I'm not sure how much more effort I'll put into it. Anyway, we'll see if I ever get a chance to use it - perhaps I'll have to go comment on Sam's blog just to test it out.