Category Archives: Web building

A conversation with Ville Vesterinen about standards and the open social web

I sat down for a conversation with Ville Vesterinen (@vesterinen) — co-founder and editor of the ArcticStartup blog — last week while he was visiting from Helsinki. Following up on the post that Jyri Engeström and I wrote on the web at a new crossroads, we discussed the need for more open standards to create [...]

Identity is the platform

These are the slides from my talk at the Mindtrek conference in Tampere, Finland today. I admit that there are some controversial things in this talk, but if I don’t say it, I don’t know who will. So, for the purpose of understanding this talk, it’s worth keeping in mind that I mean “OpenID” in [...]

Celebrate the open web on OneWebDay!

In case you didn’t hear, OneWebDay is coming up next week on Tuesday, September 22. The event is modeled after Earth Day and was started three years ago by Susan Crawford, a technology policy advisor to President Obama. Mozilla is doing their part with their own poster/photo contestand a specific call to action: Print and [...]