befriend Webfinger [July 19, 2011, 12:46 p.m.]
Please watch this short video to get an overview of Webfinger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y26c9MNQLyc
For some more background you can read the following:
http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
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If you have an Identi.ca account or a Google account you already have an email [like] address that you can webfinger.
This proposed task has 3 steps which you will need to sequentially
- create an account with a service that provides Webfinger metadata
- look up your meta data at http://webfinger.org/
- explore the information that was discovered
When you do a webfinger discovery on an email [like] address that has this rich meta data the request starts by asking for the URI http://example.org/.well-known/host-meta.
- look at the content of the file at this address?
- to be continued ..