A Whirlwind Tour of the Open Web

(C) Brendan O’Connor, http://ussjoin.comJanuary 21, 2009

• Philosophy of an Open Web

• What Does a Distributed Social Look Like?

• Technical Underpinnings of the Open Web

• Successes of the Open Web

• Where to Go From Here

Me (according to Facebook)

What if Facebook died?

Worse: If Facebook Becomes Evil

• Philosophy of an Open Web

• What Does a Distributed Social Look Like?

• Technical Underpinnings of the Open Web

• Successes of the Open Web

• Where to Go From Here

What Does a Social Network Do?

DiSo: The Distributed Social

What This Might Look Like

What This Looks Like

But Wait! There’s more!

BlogGoogle Reader

Twitter

Fire Eagle

Open! (Most of them)

• Philosophy of an Open Web

• What Does a Distributed Social Look Like?

• Technical Underpinnings of the Open Web

• Successes of the Open Web

• Where to Go From Here

Authorization: OpenID

OpenID Login Sequence

Language Support

User Choice

Microformats

XFN

hCard

OAuth vs. Password Anti-Pattern

OpenSocial

• Philosophy of an Open Web

• What Does a Distributed Social Look Like?

• Technical Underpinnings of the Open Web

• Successes of the Open Web

• Where to Go From Here

• Philosophy of an Open Web

• What Does a Distributed Social Look Like?

• Technical Underpinnings of the Open Web

• Successes of the Open Web

• Where to Go From Here

• Microformats: http://microformats.org/

• OAuth: http://oauth.net/

• OpenID: http://openid.net

• DiSo: http://diso-project.org/

• Portable Contacts: http://portablecontacts.net/

• You can find me at http://ussjoin.com or bfo@ussjoin.com

Bye!