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 […]
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I’m excited and humbled by the amazing progress we’ve made this year on Portable Contacts, which started out as little more than a few conversations and an aspirational PowerPoint deck this summer. We’ve now got a great community engaged around solving this problem (from companies large and small as well as from the grass-roots), we […]
A New Open Stack: Greater than the Sum of its Parts Internet Identity Workshop 2008b Mountain View, CA November 10, 2008 A New Open Stack: Greater Than the Sum of its Parts Download PPT (5.5MB) I was asked to give one of the opening overview talks at the Internet Identity Workshop about how the “Open […]
The Widgets Shall Inherit the Web Widget Summit 2008 San Francisco, CA November 4, 2008 Download PPT (7.1MB) For the second year in a row, I gave a talk at Niall Kennedy‘s Widget Summit in San Francisco. My my, what a difference a year makes! Last year, I was still talking about high-performance JavaScript, and […]
Performance Challenges for the Open Web Stanford CS193H: High Performance Web Sites Stanford, CA September 29, 2008 Download PPT (6.8 MB) Web site performance guru Steve Souders is teaching a class at Stanford this fall on High Performance Web Sites (CS193H). He invited me to give a guest lecture to his class on the new […]
Tying it All Together: Implementing the Open Web Web 2.0 Expo New York New York, NY September 19, 2008 Download PPT (7.2 MB) I gave the latest rev of my talk on how the social web is opening up and how the various building blocks (OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, PortableContacts, XRDS-Simple, Microformats, etc.) fit together to […]
I mentioned earlier that the opening up of the social web has become a hot topic that’s taking center stage at many recent conferences and community events–and it seems to keep getting hotter every day. As a passionate advocate and early adopter / implementor of many of the building-block technologies (OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, microformats, Social […]
Co-founder Peter Nixey just wrote up a riveting account of the recent launch of his startup clickpass for Vitamin. It’s a must-read. Plaxo was one of clickpass’s launch partners, so the story features a few cameos from yours truly. It will be hard to forget waking up in an Austin hotel around 9am on the […]
Social Networks: Where are they taking us? MIX 08 (panel) Las Vegas, NV (Venetian) March 6, 2008 Download audio (WMV 43.9 MB, MP4 38.6 MB) Joshua Allen from Microsoft contacted me and asked if I’d like to be on a panel at MIX 08, Microsoft’s big web-focused conference, about the future of social networks. I’d never been to a […]
Implementing Open Social Web support on your site Future of Web Apps Miami (workshop) Miami, FL February 28, 2008 Download PPT (3.8 MB) I was invited to give a workshop and be on a panel at the Future of Web Apps in Miami. I attended the first FOWA in SF in 2006, and I really enjoyed […]