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FBML, YML, OSML oh my! HTML, meet Social
June 05 2009
Given how quickly the Social Web is coming together, I believe that HTML will need to support social elements someday soon. It's great to see this type of innovation by Facebook running in the wild, but the web itself ultimately evolves best when multiple competing approaches come together. Just as… read moreFacebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
March 04 2009
A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a way that users can't communicate… read moreFebruary 18 2009
I'm here at Webstock in New Zealand working on my talk for tomorrow (Open, Social Web) and one of the things I've been thinking about is all of the different "Connect" applications and products that have recently sprung into existence. I mean, we have Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, MySpace… read moreGetting OpenID Into the Browser
December 02 2008
Imagine if your web browser knew who you were on the web. Just as you login to your computer, what if when you fired up your browser, it said "Hello Dave" and asked you to "unlock it" as well. In doing so you become securely logged into your OpenID provider… read moreMicrosoft Releases a Technology Preview of OpenID for Windows Live
October 27 2008
This morning at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, the Windows Live ID team announced that Windows Live ID will support OpenID 2.0 with a Community Technology Preview today and production support sometime next year. read morePortable Contacts API Starts to Get Real
September 11 2008
This evening Joseph and John of Plaxo and I have been hosting a hackathon at Six Apart for the Portable Contacts API (video about PorC). The Portable Contacts API is designed "to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and… read moreBreaking Down What's Happening on the Social Web
July 18 2008
The past few weeks, John McCrea, Joseph Smarr, and I have been shooting a 15 minute video podcast called TheSocialWeb.tv. Each week we try to break down what's happened in the Social Web in a way that is understandable so you don't have to be living and breathing this stuff.… read moreIs SocialMedia Overstepping Facebook's Privacy Line?
July 11 2008
SocialMedia is an advertising network which places ads within social applications such as those on Facebook and MySpace. SocialMedia claims to be more effective in this type of advertising, due to a patent-pending technology they've developed named FriendRank. SocialMedia CEO Seth Goldstein claims that SocialMedia ads can pay up to… read moreGoogle's Social Graph API Learns a New Trick
July 11 2008
This past February at Social Graph Foo Camp, Google released the first version of their Social Graph API. (see past Radar coverage) This API was focused on making it easier for developers to understand who a user is and find their other accounts around the web via publicly declared data.… read moreMySpace's Data Availability is not Data Portability
May 09 2008
Arguably vaporware, yesterday MySpace, Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News Corp), and Twitter announced the Data Availability Initiative. While I could write at length about how this shows the big companies have already realized how to diminish the DataPortability group's brand by linking anything they do "data portability", that… read moreApp Engine, Facebook Platform, OpenSocial, and the Future of the Web
April 09 2008
During the presentation I tweeted, "Thinking App Engine with Google Accounts integration is a threat to both Facebook Platform and OpenSocial. Metaphor shift." I thought a decent amount, well at least a few seconds, before I SMS'd that since I knew it would be lacking quite a bit of context.… read moreIs Being Open Now a Priority for Facebook?
January 09 2008
If you've been reading TechMeme, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, or many other blogs today, you'll know that Google, Plaxo, and Facebook have now joined DataPortability.org. While it certainly isn't surprising to see Plaxo and Google join, some are making it seem... read moreBattling Social Network Fatigue ... By Going Open
December 18 2007
Back in February, plenty of us started to think about and discuss social network fatigue: the idea that people are getting tired of joining new services and having to reconnect with everyone they already know. Some have argued that this... read moreWeb2Summit: Opening Up the Social Graph
October 19 2007
Brad Fitzpatrick and I just got off the stage at Web 2.0 Summit, where we talked about social networking love and hate. You'll see coverage elsewhere about what we said. Here, I'd like to take you behind the curtain and... read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
