2012/Open Real Time Search Engine
Open Real Time Search Engine was a session at IndieWebCamp 2012.
Notes from: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/indiewebcamp-openrealtime
OPENREALTIME.NET
A user has many identifiers. Given one identifier, return the other known identifiers.
Repository: https://github.com/evanp/openrealtime-net (work items in Issues)
Discussion on freenode IRC in #indiewebcamp
Starting points
OpenFollow: 2012/OpenFollow
Sign in with your name: 2012/Sign_In_With_Your_Name
Database User { "twitter": "donpdonp", "facebook": "13445948", "email": "don.park@gmail.com" } (for Facebook e.g. the vanity address should be preferred [they also use that for email and URL])
API
GET /query/<id type>/<value>
GET /query/email/don.park@gmail.com
Returns: { "twitter": "donpdonp", "facebook": "13445948", "email": "don.park@gmail.com" }
Data sources
- Gravatar: http://gravatar.com/evanprodromou, http://gravatar.com/evanprodromou.json
- About.me: http://about.me/faddah, dev key needed? http://about.me/developer/api/docs/
- Flavors.me http://flavors.me/mrflix (JSON?)
- own website with rel="me"
Future
- fuzzy search, real name search
- tie in with social indie web messaging, as contacts aggregator