About

Picture of Chris MessinaHi. I’m Chris Messina and I made this website.

I’m the co-founder of Citizen Agency, a consulting company that I’ve started up with Tara Hunt, hell bent on exploring the possibilities of working for oneself on the things one loves in this connected age of independence.

I upload lots of screenshots of interfaces to Flickr all the time.

I find lots of cool links from across the web and share them.

I once worked on the Spread Firefox project, doing the design of both the site and the two-page New York Times ad, but that was a while ago now. I also helped start Flock (the browser company) but left that gig after nine months.

I was a co-founder of BarCamp and helped start up the coworking community. I helped organize the production of the OAuth protocol and am heavily involved in OpenID and microformats.

More recently I’ve started a project with Steve Ivy to develop a model distributed social network called DiSo.

I value openness, transparency, honesty, respect and passion.