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 [...]
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 [...]
My buddies John McCrea, Joseph Smarr have started up a show called The Social Web and have released the pilot episode, featuring David Recordon on the hubbub between Google and Facebook following last week’s Supernova Conference. As they point out, things are changing and happening so fast in the industry that a show like this, [...]