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• Announcing xrds.nett

  After a discussion this afternoon in Second Life and Skype with the dataportability folks, I decided to register a domain name called xrds.net The idea was to create a community-neutral URIspace (registry) for URIs used as XRDS Service Type values.... Read More... Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:35 PM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, XRI, OAuth, Digital Identity, dataportability, XRI + i-names, xrds, xrds-simple

• IIW2008a and BONUS: Datasharing Summit

  Two can't-miss events are coming up May 12-15 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California: The Internet Identity Workshop 2008a (http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2008a/) The DataSharingSummit (http://datasharingsummit.com) This is where things happen, so you don't want to miss it. Both events... Read More... Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:29 PM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, OAuth, Digital Identity, IIW, XRI + i-names, Web/Tech, iiw2008a, datasharing, datasharingsummit

• Memo to API Service Providers

  This is a followup and expansion to a blog entry I wrote in October 2007, titled "Memo to OAuth Service Providers". Recently, I've been working with a host of companies with open APIs built specifically for 3rd parties to build... Read More... Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 3:03 AM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, social networks, opensocial, OAuth, Digital Identity, facebook, XRI + i-names, api, platform, Web/Tech

• XRDS-Simple 1.0 Draft 1

  Eran Hammer-Lahav announces the first draft of XRDS-Simple 1.0, which is the attempt to make a simplified profile of the XRDS/XRD XML document that is the core of XRI Resolution. Drummond Reed and I, along with other members of the... Read More... Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 1:01 AM from Gabe Wachob | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, XRI, OAuth, Digital Identity, inames, XRI + i-names, xrds

• OpenSocial Update: Major New Features

  I haven't had to the time to review, the specs, but from the announcement,it appears that some really important features have been added (emphasis mine): Gadgets can now be container-aware, if necessary, to build tighter integration. Developers can easily have... Read More... Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 1:03 PM from Gabe Wachob | 0 Comments Filed under: opensocial, open social, OAuth, Digital Identity

• Eran's 10 rules for community driven open-web projects

  I don't have much to say except "YES!" to Eran Hammer-Lahav's recent posting about creating open technology standards in a community-based manner: Community efforts must adhere to the same rules startups use when trying to build something new. They must... Read More... Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:10 PM from Gabe Wachob | 0 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, OAuth, Digital Identity, open standards

• OpenSocial Open Source Shindig: Overcoming the "Huh?"

  Congratulations to Google for getting the OpenSocial train on the right track. Today, they've announced a new Apache Foundation incubator project called Shindig. My complaint with OpenSocial's launch was not really with the substance of what was provided at launch,... Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:00 PM from Gabe Wachob | 0 Comments Filed under: opensocial, facebook

• Google responds quickly on _IG_Fetch issue

  Google appears pretty serious about making OpenSocial work. They've already posted a proposal to address the security "issue" I blogged about yesterday (though I certainly wasn't the first or only person to discuss the issue): We've been getting great feedback... Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:47 AM from Gabe Wachob | 0 Comments Filed under: Security, opensocial, OAuth

• OpenSocial: The _IG_Fetch Security Issue

  [Update 11:19pm PST - A number of folks in the IRC channel have noted that the problems described here are really only a certain class of applications. OpenSocial/Google Gadgets can be used in many scenarios that don't raise the issues... Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:23 AM from Gabe Wachob | 0 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial, OAuth, google

• Google's Open Social: The missing pieces?

  Like many people, I'm having a hard time seeing how the Google OpenSocial announcement isn't missing some essential pieces. While I have inferred the bigger architecture from the OpenSocial API site, and partner sites, I find it disconcerting that the... Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:43 AM from Gabe Wachob | 0 Comments Filed under: opensocial, Digital Identity, social networking

• OpenSocial: after the dust settles

  Google launched OpenSocial last week to much acclaim and oodles of press. So much talk and noise was generated that I think the real ramifications of this announcement have gotten lost. Firstly, the net of this is that its really good for consumers. The OpenSocial API’s will make it easier for users to move [...] Read More... Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 3:13 PM from Scott Kveton | 0 Comments Filed under: OpenID, opensocial

• OpenSocial Isn't the Entire Answer

  Tim O'Reilly writes on O'Reilly Radar : While I like the direction of Google OpenSocial, not only may Google be too late, as Mark argues, I don't think they go far enough. A framework and a set of Google Gadgets for building "social applications" misses the point. We don't want to build more applications that look like Facebook applications. It isn't about a social UI. It's about deeper re-use of social data to enliven any application. Some of those applications may have a minimal UI, like Google's Read More... Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 7:14 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: technology, web2expo, opensocial

• OpenSocial at Barcamp Berlin

  Yesterday at BarCamp Berlin , Lukas Rosenstock , Christian Scholz , and I hosted a session on the social graph and OpenSocial. It was a very full room (~60 people) where we mainly led a discussion around OpenSocial. We started out by giving background on why opening the social graph is becoming so important (ala our Web 2.0 Summit presentation ) and then Christian presented on OpenSocial itself. By the end of the hour session, we had generated a list of questions about OpenSocial which we all were Read More... Posted Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:02 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: social networks, technology, social graph, opensocial, barcamp