Category Archives: The Web Arts

Inaugural Jelly! Talk this Friday: OpenID vs Facebook Connect

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 coworking” — but it really has its own culture and identity independent of [...]

Where we’re going with Activity Streams

The DiSo Project is just over a year old. It’s remained a somewhat amorphous blob of related ideas, concepts and aspirations in my brain, but has resulted in some notable progress, even if such progress appears dubious on the surface.
For example, OAuth is a core aspect of DiSo because it enables site-to-site permissioning and safer [...]

The Community Ampflier

I am honored to be a recipient of this year’s Google O’Reilly Open Source Award for being the “best community amplifier” for my work with the microformats, Spread Firefox and BarCamp communities! (See the original call for nominations).
Inexplicably I was absent when they handed out the award, hanging out with folks at a Python/Django/jQuery [...]