Jason Davies

Google finally comes up with a better way to expose contacts data. No more having to give out my gmail password!

Google Calendar Sync looks interesting, it only allows synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook Calendar at the moment though.

This simple Django snippet demonstrates how to ping Technorati and Google when a blog post has been added or updated.

import xmlrpclib

from django.core import urlresolvers
from django.db.models import signals
from django.dispatch import dispatcher

from django.contrib.sites.models import Site

def send_pings(sender, instance):
    base_url = 'http://%s' % Site.objects.get_current().domain
    blog_url = '%s%s' % (base_url, urlresolvers.reverse('blog-index'))
    entry_url = '%s%s' % (base_url, instance.get_absolute_url())
    # Ping Technorati
    j = xmlrpclib.Server('http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping')
    reply = j.weblogUpdates.ping('Jason Davies', entry_url)
    # Ping Google Blog Search
    j = xmlrpclib.Server('http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2')
    reply = j.weblogUpdates.ping('Jason Davies', blog_url, entry_url)

dispatcher.connect(send_pings, sender=Entry, signal=signals.post_save)

Google have made a step in the right direction by providing a new Social Graph API. Time to update my sites to support XFN and FOAF.

See also: URLs are People, Too