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Sorry for nitpicking, but it's not Google Talk, it's XMPP (aka Jabber). Google Talk is just one of the many interconnected and interoperable XMPP services, but there are many others as well: http://xmpp.org/services/

hmm, that's true but I rely on Google Talk to provide the online/offline badges, if you know of any services that will provide the same functionality I'd love to hear about them.

Unfortunately there's no generic web presence mechanism for XMPP or at least I don't know of any, however ejabberd (one of the most widely used XMPP servers) has mod_webpresence http://www.ejabberd.im/mod_webpresence and there's also a jQuery plugin for that - but it's not very generic.

I'm not sure how difficult it would be to create, but you could have an XMPP bot request presence subscriptions from all users who enter usernames.

Hmm, this sounds like an interesting problem.

Problem is that more often than not to be able to receive presence updates, you need to be on the presence ("friends") list of the other party, you can't just request the presence of any user in XMPP world. Even if you could, it take a few seconds, which is a very long time in the lifetime of a web request.

Would be good to import SO points, and then be able to run a search on say HN points and SO points. Perhaps Twitter stats too.

I do collect the SO reputation score so this is possible, lets see how many upvotes your post gets and if enough people agree I'll do it.

The skype and google talk badges combined with timezone search should help with the problem of finding people to talk to / bounce ideas off who are online right now. If anyone wants other IM protocols supported, post them here and I'll see what I can do

I don't want to spam all my twitter followers with a link to your website just so you can confirm that a twitter account belongs to me. Isn't there a better way of performing the confirmation?

You can put the link in your twitter profile instead, or delete the tweet after. I'll make that clearer

Cool. Putting it in the web field in my Twitter profile temporarily, worked.

I think it is possible to auth through the api too.

yeah but then I'd have to ask for the user's twitter password, which I don't want to do.

Twitter uses OAuth so no need for the users password.

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_faq

FYI, the password reset email from hackernewsers to me was delayed because the mail server host IPv6 address [2002:c125:989e:b:219:66ff:fe07:22e7] doesn't have any reverse DNS set up. Should really have FCRDNS.

thanks, I'll look into it

Bug: If you simultaneously add twitter and stackoverflow information, and it asks you to authenticate, and you authenticate one of those, all the "other public profiles" information is lost (not saved). You have to authenticate twitter by itself, then SO.

Suggestion: Could I have my bio at the top? My bio is far more important for stating my value proposition than a list of cookie-cutter skills. Also, the skillset should be collapsed and not take up so much vertical space.

investigating... thanks

Edit - moved the bio to the top, will see what I can do about the skills

Congrats on the site - it looks like you are getting some traction.

Just a suggestion, but you may want to clean up the skills list. Letting the community add their own skills (rather than suggest) causes the list to get really messy in a hurry.

Example:

  Ruby
  - Rails
  - webapp development
  --- Programming
  ----- XProc
  --- sinatra

Thanks, you're right about the skills, at the moment merging duplicates is a bit of a pain, I'll have to make it easier.

Love the speed that you work at, getting out this MVP in what was it 14 hours or something? plus it looks great too. This is what I always struggle with, I can get a MVP out quick but it will look rough.

Linking Stackoverflow accounts doesn't work, I tried copying the link, but verification fails.

hmm, strange, does it work if you try again now?

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