Blogging at the beginning of June ‘09
OpenID’s Tipping Point - and congrats to Facebook for doing the right thing!
It’s totally coolio that SixApart has launched some plugins for Wordpress - but what I DON’T see is their Activity Streams product! I sure would like to have THAT on my blog!
Chris Messina on the open, social web
Only 0.7% of OpenSocial apps run on more than one container.
Jason Calacanis is getting desperate. Good! He needs to spend that VC money faster - it’ll help our economy. He’s going to go out of business anyway - might as well spend all the money quicker.
Google is waving to everyone “hello - lets start some persistent, re-entrant conversations”. So I waved back “ever heard of ThreadsML?”
I say the first blogger was Dave Winer - with Rebecca Eisenberg close behind
R.I.P. Vidoop - I guess they won’t be sponsoring DiSO any more
Good luck to Roland on his new gig. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fellow.
LogOut: the other half of the identity equation
Our president makes it clear that he supports net neutrality!
Air France widget, Yahoo! PlaceMaker, Bluenity, Clearspring API, Quirky, UserVoice, Flirt140,
Credit Where Credit Is Due
To me, the primary attributes of blogs are a simplifying web-client (with its simplified site-setup), comments and the breakthrough of RSS feeds. One can quibble about who the first blogger was, but it seems clear to me that Dave Winer is “The Father of Blogging.”