Category Archives: What I do

The Community Ampflier

Jul 23rd – @ 1am

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 [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Open source, Personal, SpreadSpread, The Web Arts | Comments (3)

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 Citizen-centric Web, Technology, Usability, Web building | Comments (3)

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 Citizen-centric Web, Open source, Technology, Web building, WordPress | Comments (3)