Oh, there are two APIs in OS X to do async networking, and we were using the wrong one in Firefox 1 and 2... the old, wrong one blocks the whole app. In Firefox 3 we're using the correct one!

• Google Calendar -- works, obviously
• Evite -- dear God, I wish they had an API so I could cron a job to sync my evite to my calendar. Has anybody wrote a screen-scraping module?
• Upcoming.org -- well, they can export to Google Calendar, so that's good, and I don't really get invitations from this, so no real beefs here.
• Crush3r -- great site. wish its invites would show on my calendar somehow. (attach .ics file to emails? will gcal pick up on that?)
• Facebook -- it can export to Gcal, but I have to log in to Facebook. I want the email to add an event.
• Pownce

Another Digg user, David Recordon, has sent you a shout. You can read it at the following URL:

http://digg.com/users/bradfitzpatrick#send-shout

Cheers,

The Digg Team

dan_erat

"So that means either no network access, or no backgrounding running apps."

"Well, you get network access."

• Homepage URL (very public)
• Email address (little bit more secret)
• Mobile phone number (perhaps pretty secretive)

• Being an OpenID identifier
• hosting an hCard
• Pointing to another Yadis service type (OAuth-protected friends/contact server)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Sample YADIS XRDS file -->
<xrds:XRDS
    xmlns:xrds="xri://$xrds"
    xmlns="xri://$xrd*($v*2.0)">
  <XRD>

    <Service priority="0">
      <Type>http://schemas.net/2008/email-to-url/</Type>
      <URI>http://apis.my-email-service.com/email2url_mapper.cgi</URI>
    </Service>

  </XRD>
</xrds:XRDS>

GET /email2url_mapper.cgi?email=bradfitz@my-email-service.com HTTP/1.1
Host: apis.my-email-service.com

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://bradfitz.com/

Your public URL: [___________________________]
(This is the web URL that will be given out to anybody with your email address.)

• Got to discuss the Social Graph API in public finally. I got a bunch of good feedback/questions/requests.
• google-sgnodemapper rules for hi5.com, dopplr.com with Paul Lindner and Matt Biddulph, respectively. Matt's going to work on Ruby bindings for sgnodemapper.
• Great hCard/XFN discussion/education from Tantek Çelik.
• Great FOAF/RDF discussion/education from Dan Brickley.
• Hacking with Joseph Smarr and Tantek.
• I came up with a tiny proposal for doing email -> URL mapping that people seemed to (surprisingly) all agree on, which solves a bunch of different problems.
• Saw Shelf (so cool!).

    * From: Daniel Veillard 
    * Subject: [xml] Security flaw affecting all previous libxml2 releases
    * Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:05:01 -0500

  Unfortunately, a security flaw was found (originally by Brad Fitzpatrick
from Google) and affecting all previous releases of libxml2 when parsing
XML. Two specially crafted broken UTF-8 sequences when occuring at the
wrong place lead the parser to go into an infinite loop. Very annoying,
as this lead to a relatively easy Denial of Service attack, the good part
being that this is very unlikely to happen just by error, and to protect
the community we won't release the way to reproduce this.

  But all users are strongly invited to upgrade their libxml2 versions to
2.6.31 [1], or apply the patch [2] (or a derivative for 2.5 or 2.4 branches)
to their version. Most OS vendors shipping libxml2 should have updates
by now or very soon, if needed check your update stream, it is referenced
as CVE-2007-6284 .

    Sorry for the inconvenience,

Daniel

[1] ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml/libxml2-2.6.31.tar.gz
[2] http://veillard.com/libxml2.patch