Late this September I’ll be traveling with Brynn to speak at a conference in Helsinki called MindTrek. I’m looking forward to this trip for several reasons, and one of them is that I’ll be putting on an independent workshop called “FROM THE TRENCHES: THE SOCIAL WEB WORKSHOP”. The workshop will start with a synthesis of [...]
When I suggested that Steve Jobs hates the App Store, I wanted to shift the debate away from the enmity some developers harbor for the App Store and instead, reconsider the consequences of its existence — i.e. what are we not working on by funneling so much time and energy into App Store apps? Turns [...]
As the US government considers OpenID as a vehicle for citizen engagement, it became time for the OpenID Foundation’s website to receive similar consideration. For some time, the site has been neglected and ignored — serving primarily as a resource for developers, with little regard paid to people just learning about digital identity. The new [...]