open standards

Single point of (Facebook) failure Members Public

Facebook has wiped itself, WhatsApp and Instagram off the internet. And the longer they stay down, the more some publishers will be suffering…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Writers, Coders and the Markdown landgrab Members Public

If Standard Markdown (now CommonMark) wants to replace Markdown, it needs to acknowledge that it's not just a markup standard for coders.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital journalism

IndieWeb - Kevin Marks on the web that will win (LeWeb 13) Members Public

Can we reclaim the open web from the closed social silos? Kevin Marks thinks so…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
kevin marks

Google: no longer a webby company Members Public

Marco Arment has used the demise of Google Reader to explore how Google has changed since the rise of Facebook [http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown] – and how the big three web players (Facebook, Twitter and Google) are no longer “webby” in the sense we once used the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
APIs

What is PubSubHubbub? Members Public

A video attempting to explain PubSubHubbub [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubSubHubbub], a protocol that takes RSS and Atom feeds and makes them real time: It’s an important technology for the tech guys in publishers to get their heads around.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
open standards

Le Web: MySpace goes Real Time Members Public

Ah, MySpace. Once the poster child of social networks, now a huge online hub for music.And it wants to push that into the real time world, creating the ability to see how music trends are developing all over the world.MySpace is opening up the activity streams of its

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
activity streams

Le Web 08: Platform Love & Open Standards Members Public

Finally grabbed some WiFi and have my first (almost) liveblog of the day up – on the Platform Love open standards session [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2008/12/le-web-08-the-social-stack.html] . Today’s programme is shaping up to be much better than yesterday, incidentally.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
leweb

Le Web 08: The Social Stack Members Public

For example, OpenID is a profile web address that you can use to login to any site that supports it. OpenSocial solves the desire to use any app on any site on the web, with the same people relationships and profile data you have elsewhere. Apps written for this standard

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook