I suppose it might come as a surprise that I’ve decided to question, if not reject, XFN as the format for expressing portable friends or contact lists. I’m not throwing out the baby in the bathwater here, but rather focusing on the problem that needs to be solved and choosing to redouble my efforts on [...]
This past weekend I attended a topic-specific FOO Camp called Social Graph FOO Camp (otherwise known as SGFOO) organized by Scott Kveton and David Recordon (or ray-chor-dohn according to Larry). Scott’s write up is pretty complete, but I wanted to call out one specific outcome that I think is worth noting. On Sunday, we had [...]
The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo. Here’s what I asked myself: how are you? we’re going to talk about diso today? is that right? what is diso? you say it’s a social network, so how would it work with wordpress? how is this different from myspace or facebook? so who’s involved in [...]