werd.io and idno

I'm posting over at werd.io, a site I've set up based on my idno software.

I wrote a short technical introduction to the platform:

IndieWeb principles

Right now I'm using it as a blog, but the intention is that it could power a whole community, or set of communities. It certainly has the back-end functionality and APIs to do so, and I'll be writing more about those as time goes on. It's not immediately obvious unless you're logged in, but idno has a full plugin system, which allows anyone to write new content types, and syndicate to new sites. (For example, two existing non-core plugins push to Twitter and Facebook, depending on the Activity Streams object type of the content you're posting.) Access permissions are also baked right into the data model, so you'll be able to keep non-public content, and share it in a federated way.

I'm pretty excited about it - but I'm also just enjoying posting to it. It's a breeze. I'll be opening a community site based on the platform soon, so stay tuned - or take a peek at the GitHub repository.