idno
I wrote a post as a submission for the W3C's upcoming Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business. great post to readargue I believe that these compelling business models exist, and that they are most easily discoverable in the enterprise. However, belief is not demonstration: we must
idno
I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I've been building: What decisions would I make if I was building Elgg today, in 2013? What would I do the same way, and what would I do differently? It's still
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
Data control
This post was originally published over on werd.io, my idno-powered site, where I'm hosting all of my new posts and social media updates. There's been a lot of news stories lately about how technology companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! may or may not
Data control
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
Software development
It looks like I'm not the only person who likes the idea of signed HTTP requests as an authentication method. Joyent and Digital Bazaar have co-written an Internet draft for cryptographically signed HTTP requests: Several web service providers have invented their own schemes for signing HTTP requests, but
Data control
Tent appeared out of the blue today: a protocol and reference server implementation for individual-to-individual distributed social networking. Or to put it another way, Tent is a way to host your own social data - posting and reading from as many apps as you want. Here's their announcement,
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
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.
General
If you’re going to do something, do it well I’ve been thinking a lot lately about open source business models. The project I’m most often associated with, Elgg, developed a business some two years after the project itself was founded. Now that I’m considering a new