Singpolyma:
So, finally someone talking about the future of distributed social networking. The tech and the connecty bits we want have really been mostly there for some time now, the problem is, no one has been very clear on what the ne (Read More)
FactoryCity:
I’ve gone on and on about identity on the web and the battle over owning your namespace online. As far as I’m concerned there are clear and present dangers in making an ill- or uninformed decision about who you host your iden (Read More)
readwriteweb:
The year was 2013. Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg was still the social network's public persona, but he had a young family and new-found loves of world travel, exotic regional cocktails and faux-native art. Facebook had (Read More)
FactoryCity:
When I left Flock in 2006, I blogged the occasion, having helped start the company by contributing a vision for what I thought the web needed: a social browser.When I was laid off from Vidoop last month, I didn’t so much as t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The last video interview I did at the Next09 conference in Hamburg that I wanted to feature here on TechCrunch is the conversation I had with mr. Captain Web 2.0 himself, open web advocate Chris Messina. Besides his involveme (Read More)
FactoryCity:
Prompted by posts by Randy Reddig and Tony Stumblevine and a conversation with Elliott Kember, I wanted to address, yet again, the big fat stinking elephant in the room: OpenID usability and the paradox of choice.Elliott prop (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
You can log in to comment here on ReadWriteWeb with an OpenID, via Facebook Connect or through various other methods. Imagine if you could make "friend" connections with other commenters on our site. That relationship would (Read More)
FactoryCity:
This Friday, I’ll be joined by Dave Morin (my good friend from Facebook) at the first ever Jelly! Talk at Joe and Brian’s loft in San Francisco.If you’re not familiar with Jelly, you should be. I call it the “gateway drug to (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Open web enthusiast Todd Ronin has published a cool mock-up animation of what an "activity stream" might look like on an Android phone. The design is simple but is something we can imagine enjoying on our phones, a lot.Andr (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In the second RWW Live of 2009, we go in-depth about a web standard that made big strides in 2008 and is being increasingly adopted by Internet companies big and small: OpenID. At the end of December, the OpenID Foundation (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard. So far it's just a vision, al (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last night at the offices of blogging software company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the (Read More)
FactoryCity:
Chris Dracket responded to one of my tweets the other day, saying that “OpenID should be dead… it’s way over-rated”. I’ve of course heard plenty of criticisms of OpenID, but hadn’t really h (Read More)
DiSo Project:
DiSo is built on the idea of implementing social networking concepts on existing standards where possible. One of those standards is XRDS Simple, a service description and discovery format that is a part of several recent and (Read More)
DiSo Project:
David Cohn grabbed this interview with me at the Net Squared conference in San Jose last week. In it, I discuss what DiSo is, what the point is and briefly enumerate the various technologies that make up the DiSo “stack”: (Read More)
DiSo Project:
DiSo developers Chris Messina and Will Norris will be joining the Vidoop team to work on the DiSo project full time. Read the various announcements at:Vidoop BlogReadWriteWebChris’s BlogScott Kveton’s BlogSteve Ivy’s BlogWil (Read More)
DiSo Project:
Larry Halff and I took 30 minutes to talk about our expectations for the new year, in particular focusing on where identity and the Citizen Web are likely headed given current indicators.This is the first of a (hopefully) new (Read More)
DiSo Project:
Chris was on the LikeItMatters podcast today, talking about DiSo, social networking, OpenID, etc. It was a great conversation and Chris does a good job . (Read More)