idno
I just stumbled on this old thread by Marc Canter and Stephen Downes (emphasis mine): The primary use of OpenID should not simply be identification, but also, to tell remote sites where to direct our actions. So – in a sense – I carry all my own home website tools with me
Software development
Ryan Holiday laments the loss of Google Reader and RSS in general in Our Regressive Web, arguing that if someone came up with them today, we'd think they were brilliant ideas: We’re just regressing. [...] RSS is impervious to blogging’s worst, but most profitable traits. [...] No wonder
Software development
Facebook's new Graph Search is an exceptionally powerful idea. Here are some searches I'm looking forward to running: * Bars my friends like in San Francisco * My friends who like Doctor Who and live near me and like pizza * Friends that know [insert investor or entrepreneur name
Data control
I originally wrote this over on Google+. I'm sat at my laptop, which has a monitor attached via a digital connection. On the other side of my desk is my phone, and a tablet. That's the setup I actually have right now, as I'm
General
Diaspora was pretty exciting. A Kickstarter campaign that promised it all: a platform created "for everyone to have full control over their data and to empower people in to become responsible, secure, and social Internet dwellers". They raised over $200,000, which at the time was the largest
Data control
The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at Over the Air 2012 at Bletchley Park on June 2nd, 2012. They build on my notes for a previous talk, Building the user-centered web. Desktop isn't enough. For the last few years, I've been
Web
Confession: I want to like Google+. I think competition is a great thing, and Google is in a unique position to do something fascinating with social platforms. It's also significant that a lot of really brilliant people from the decentralized web community - Chris Messina, Will Norris and
Data control
I've got a phone number: +1 (312) 488-9373. Feel free to call or text it. If I'm walking around, you'll get me on my Samsung Galaxy S II. If I'm in transit (but not driving), you'll probably get me on
Politics
Wired reports that a group involved in the Occupy movement is working on its own decentralized social networking platform: “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a
General
I believe that web intents are the last missing piece for decentralized social networking. (Previously I've talked about creating a social web architecture using Activity Streams and OAuth; this builds on that idea.) Picture this chain of events: 1. I visit your website, and see that you have
General
This post is adapted from something I wrote on Google+. There are more comments over there; also see Evan Promodou's riff on the same idea. Google+'s combination of streams and circles works. So here's something I've been mulling over for a while:
Software development
This is a more technical post than I've been writing lately. I'm considering splitting out into two blog channels; let me know if you'd prefer this. This is a request for comments and ideas. Please let me know what you think in the comments.