Archive for February, 2009
Missing the Oscars Finale: A Case Study in Technology Failure (and Opportunity)
Yesterday one of my wife’s friends came over to visit, and we decided on a lark to watch the Oscars (which we haven’t done most years). Even though we pay for Cable and are avid TiVo users, due to a variety of circumstances we missed both the beginning of the Oscars and–more importantly–the entire finale, [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2009 under Personal.
Comments: 9
Implementing OAuth is still too hard… but it doesn’t have to be
I recently helped Dave Winer debug his OAuth Consumer code, and the process was more painful than it should have been. (He was trying to write a Twitter app using their beta OAuth support, and since he has his own scripting environment for his OPML editor, there wasn’t an existing library he could just drop [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2009 under Open Social Web, Web development.
Comments: 14
Test-Driving the New Hybrid
The quest to open up the Social Web is quickly shifting from a vision of the future to a vision of the present. Last week we reached an important milestone in delivering concrete benefits to mainstream users from the Open Stack. Together with Google, we released a new way to join Plaxo–without having to create [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2009 under Open Social Web, Plaxo.
Comments: 7