Single point of (Facebook) failure
Facebook has wiped itself, WhatsApp and Instagram off the internet. And the longer they stay down, the more some publishers will be suffering…
digital journalism
Writers, Coders and the Markdown landgrab
If Standard Markdown (now CommonMark) wants to replace Markdown, it needs to acknowledge that it's not just a markup standard for coders.
kevin marks
IndieWeb - Kevin Marks on the web that will win (LeWeb 13)
Can we reclaim the open web from the closed social silos? Kevin Marks thinks so…
APIs
Google: no longer a webby company
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
open standards
What is PubSubHubbub?
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.
activity streams
Le Web: MySpace goes Real Time
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
leweb
Le Web 08: Platform Love & Open Standards
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.
Le Web 08: The Social Stack
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