Bookmarks for July 07 to July 21

Good write up (in French) of OAuth.

mixin provides a standard authentication based on OAuth.

The fail whale may be going the way of the Dodo if you don’t retweat the message below.

The fancy pants engineers over at Twitter are “revamping their system to scale”. This cynical move toward business efficiency puts the fail whale species at risk of mass extinction. When Twitter was asked to comment on this, they had nothing to say for themselves. Nothing!

Great source of WebClip icons for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Monolab|Workspace is a network of open work places developed in cosmopolitan areas around the world. It is designed for small and large businesses looking for cost-effective ways to conduct business in a global and connected world, while meaningfully improving the business traveling experience of their collaborators.

Monolab|Workspace offers all-inclusive packages starting at $1,500/month, without any setup fees nor long-term commitments. It provides a range of tools and services that would be out of reach for small companies, at a fraction of the cost of setting up dedicated offices in comparable locations. Monolab|Workspace is managed as a club, granting members from one location access to all other locations, at no extra cost.

Co-working expert Sanford Dickert runs CooperBricolage, a co-working space in New York City, and will be talking to us about trends in this movement to leave the home office behind. Dickert will also show us some of the tools he uses to collaborate with others, and make his space rock-and-roll.

“Of course that’s also the goal of groups like Chris Messina’s DiSo project and in this case Autonomo.us is a bit late to the game. Rather than spending their time on grandiose statements, the DiSo Project and others like are already distributing code that just works.”

“NPR’s API provides a flexible, powerful way to access your favorite NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations. This archive consists of over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations.”

write dynamic web applications with Zen-like simplicity

This site contains public information about early stage development work that Google is doing with OAuth.

Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. So many people now use Twitter to update friends that the system often crashes.

In April, NASA CoLab released a Request For Proposal (RFP) for a Partnership Software which very explicitly requested the software to be built on an open source CMS, used for one particular use case, then packaged up and released as an installable application. We (Chapter Three LLC) recently won the contract with a Drupal solution, and our goal is to build an out-of-the-box “Drupal Product” that organizers can use to facilitate participatory conferences (ala Drupalcon, BarCamp etc.). The distro will support conference invitation, registration, session proposals + voting, note-taking, and forming post-conference working groups.

DandyId is a free service that connects all of your online identities & makes them globally accessible. Your e-mail address serves as a single access point to your Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn & much more — services being added daily!

Laments on the lack of relying parties for OpenID.

Conjunctured is Austin’s first coworking space (we just got the keys). We’re open, so come on by!