Falcon

Falcon is a personal publishing (tweeting, blogging, realtime syndicating) web application.

tantek.com blog and tweet content is served via Falcon.

There is a minimal publicly accessible tweeting-only Falcon alpha interface at http://tantek.com/falcon/

Follow @falcon for updates.

current support

Per my stated outline for DiSo 2.0 , Falcon currently supports:

1. personal site+shortlink domain integration
2. algorithmic URL shortener (Whistle).
3. hAtom store.
4. hAtom output (still need to figure out how to add Activity Streams semantics to hAtom)
• discoverable Atom + Activity Streams feed 
5. discoverable update notifications via PubSubHubbub (PuSH).
6. ... (placeholder) ...
7. content-type-specific syndication to specific sites
• text notes
• to Twitter (distributed from there to Cliqset, Facebook, Friendfeed)
• to Google Buzz via standard rel-me discovery/claiming and PuSH + Atom feed.
• blog posts (live as of 2010-231)
• full content PuSHed realtime with Activity Streams to Google Buzz 
• title + permashortlink syndicated (via API) to Twitter 
8. ... (placeholder) ...
9. update authorization via RelMeAuth (OAuth + rel-me)
• try signing-in yourself with your personal site at http://tantek.com/relmeauth
10. ... (placeholder) ...

to be implemented

To be implemented from Diso2 outline (not necessarily in this order)

1. ... 
2. ... 
3. ... 
4. Activity Streams semantics in hAtom (brainstorm: classnames 'as-note' 'as-article')
5. ... 
6. personalized PuSH hub.
7. content-type-specific syndication to specific sites
• text notes
• to Identi.ca (awaiting Identi.ca discovery of PuSH hub from personal profile URL, and [ ] remote subscribe to personal updates option - requested 2010-200 in-person during lunch at Bijou Cafe, Portland)
• status/profile updates
• relationship update (see related ActivityStreams wiki pages: heart, status, update)

• to Twitter (e.g. prefix with ♥ icon, form update into a sentence)

• to Facebook (somehow using their API?)
• ... does anything else provide any special UI for relationship updates?  
• geo checkins to Foursquare, Brightkite, Gowalla
• photos to Flickr
• events to Plancast, Upcoming
8. reverse syndication of comments+tags+notes
• from potentially any site via accepting Salmon slaps
• e.g. supposedly Buzz, Cliqset, Identi.ca, Status.net send slaps
• from said specific sites
• poll and filter Twitter @-replies (so noisy)
• poll FriendFeed all comments on items feed (if there is such a thing)
• parse Facebook comment emails, or poll Facebook all comments on items feed (if there is such a thing)
9. authoring/editing/comment authorization via RelMeAuth (OAuth + rel-me).
10. personal OAuth endpoint.  

necessary inventions

Summary of inventions/conventions I felt I had to create+build+refine (so far) to start tweeting from my own site:

1. multi-content-type permalink URL design
2. algorithmically reversible shortlink URL design and shortener (Whistle).
3. print-safe NewBase60 encoding
4. ISO8601 ordinal date (and NewCalendar) library functions
5. CASSIS JS/PHP client-server hybrid progamming model and library (already opensourced: CassisProject)
6. HTML5+hAtom storage system (no MySQL, no DBA tax/overhead/struggles)
7. "smart" ellipsing function (prefer whole words, punctuation rules, avoid misleading ellipses)
8. syndication discoverable permashortlinks (indicated in-band at end of content)
9. item time sequential navigation (Flickr inspired buttons, Facebook photo-album inspired arrow-key keyboard shortcuts)
10. item shortlink/permalink easy copy/re-use (YouTube inspired).

interviews

• http://www.monkinetic.com/2010/03/interview-tantek-celik-conceptualizing-diso-20.html where Steve Ivy asks me to explain my vision for DiSo 2.0 (which Falcon is implementing).

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