Social Igniter

 Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is @TylerGillies. 

Over these past few days i've been helping Mr. @BrennanNovak implement some goodies into the Social Igniter platform. 

These updates are only a tasty morsel of whats to come in the exciting future. Firstly, I've added Webfinger support. Essentially, Webfinger is a protocol that acts as a virtual business card, it's tied to an identifier very similar to (and could even be) an email address. 

You probably have a Webfinger identifier without even knowing it! (Google attaches one to your gmail account automatically). A website that implements webfinger will allow you to enter in your ID, then it will look up any relevant information it needs about you. 

Over here at Social Igniter, we plan on tying in your Twitter profile and Facebook profile into your identifer, so all you need to do is give them your Social Igniter ID, and they will automatically know your Twitter and Facebook address (this is totally opt-in). Other services are being planned right now.

In addition to Webfinger, I've also implemented PubSubHubBub a.k.a PuSH a.k.a the world's hardest to pronounce protocol spec. This allows someone to subscribe to your updates on any service that supports PuSH (currently: Google Buzz, Identi.ca, Status.net, rstat.us, Cliqset). 

Once you publish an update, your message is automatically pushed to the person who subscribed to you and they receive it in realtime. The location of your PuSH feed is conveniently located in your Webfinger profile, so in addition to getting a lot of other useful information, your subscribers also get the location to your realtime updates.

These protocols lay the foundation for some amazing possibilies. I hope that after studying some of these technologies you'll be as excited as me in exploring the future of the internet.

oh and MONOCL.ES