When I left Flock in 2006, I blogged the occasion, having helped start the company by contributing a vision for what I thought the web needed: a social browser.
When I was laid off from Vidoop last month, I didn’t so much as tweet about it. The circumstances were different this time. But because the lack [...]
Chris Dracket responded to one of my tweets the other day, saying that “OpenID should be dead… it’s way over-rated”. I’ve of course heard plenty of criticisms of OpenID, but hadn’t really heard that it was “overrated” (which implies that people have a higher opinion of OpenID than it merits).
Intrigued, I replied, asking him to [...]
By Chris Messina
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Posted in Citizen Agency, Citizen-centric Web, DiSo, Digital Identity, Philosophy, Technology, Things I think about, Web building, What I do
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Also tagged Citizen Agency, DiSo, identity, openid, privacy, security, Usability, web citizen
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Well, Twitter, along with Marshall and his post on ReadWriteWeb, beat me to it, but I’m pretty excited to announce that, yes, I am joining Vidoop, along with Will Norris, to work full time on the DiSo (distributed social) Project.
For quite some time I’ve wanted to get the chance to get back to focusing on [...]
By Chris Messina
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Posted in Citizen-centric Web, DiSo, Digital Identity, Microformats, Open source, Technology, Vidoop, Web building, What I do
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Also tagged DiSo, Microformats, oauth, openid, xrds-simple
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