Category Archives: Citizen-centric Web

Musings on Chrome, the rebirth of the location bar and privacy in the cloud

Sep 2nd – @ 6pm

Imagine a browser of the web, by the web, and for the web. Not simply a thick client application that simply opens documents with the http:// protocol instead of file://, but one that runs web applications (efficiently!), that plays the web, that connects people across the boundaries of the silos and gives them local-like access [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Civil liberties, Digital Identity, Open source, Technology, Web building | Comments (20)

OAuth for the iPhone: Pownce.app

Jul 11th – @ 11am

If you’re one of the lucky folks that’s been able to upgrade your iPhone (and activate it) to the 2.0 firmware, I encourage you to give the Pownce application a try, if only to see a real world example of OAuth in action (that link will open in iTunes).
Here’s how it goes in pictures:
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By Chris Messina | Also posted in Technology, Usability, Web building | Comments (4)

Feature request: OAuth in WordPress

Jul 2nd – @ 5pm

In the past couple days, there’s been a bit of a dust-up about some changes coming to WordPress in 2.6 — namely disabling ATOM and XML-RPC APIs by default.
The argument is that this will make WordPress more secure out of the box — but the question is at what cost? And, is there a better [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Open source, Technology, Web building, WordPress | Comments (3)