1 post tagged “core page”

As you may have noticed, ricciadams.com has been replaced by "Ricci Adams' Core Page."

"What exactly is a core page?", you might ask.  It's basically a list of all blogs, social networking sites, projects, and other web pages which identify my presence on the Internet.  It's similar to the "homepages" of yester-century; except, instead of displaying outward links to interests of the author, it focuses on inward links to the author's creations and other identities.

My core page's current features:

1) XFN values - Part of the XML Friends Network microformat is the "me" value, which basically says "This link points to a page which is part of my online identity."  Hence, all of my links specify this value in their rel attribute.  An XFN compatible web browser or search engine visiting ricciadams.com could determine that my MySpace page, Vox journal, and other links were also "me" (and display results as such to the viewer).

2) Weighted lists - Also known as tag clouds.  I use the visual weight of each link to represent my activity for each link.  Since I check MySpace and this journal almost every day, they are the boldest.  Sites which I don't frequent often (such as 43 Places and orkut) are in smaller print.

3) Beta badge - It's a known fact that you can't be cool and Web 2.0 without the word "Beta" somewhere on your page.  Thanks to Jens for the idea ;)

Potential features:

1) Feed aggregation - Some of the sites on my core page host Atom or RSS in addition to standard web pages.  It would be neat to have the feed for ricciadams.com be a collection of all of these sub-feeds.  Since Safari RSS supports the feeds: protocol, this should be simple to implement.  Unfortuately, some of my favorite social networking sites still do not provide feeds.

2) More dynamic content - I would love to have my Tetris DS scores or current geographical location appear on the core page.