Since the early 1990s, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of online identity management: what it means to have an identity online, what stays consistent with the offline world, what becomes more fluid, and what becomes more fixed.
It’s a very vibrant space right now, with commercial vendors, open source projects, trends, and standards all vying for attention. I’m thinking here of a couple of overlapping categories: Read more…
Facebook is planning on allowing users to add activities from third party social networking site directly into their Facebook news feed, we’ve confirmed.
The problem is that their only talking about allowing users to *add* activities into the news feed, not to take their facebook news feed and take it elsewhere. As TechCrunch put it: Read more…
Not surprisingly, Dries’ state of Drupal presentation was well received by the crowd of assembled Drupalers.
The state of our union is strong, Dries began, citing the success of Drupal 6 in attracting even broader communities of interest. But as we prepare for the broader audiences that success brings, there are things we need to pay more attention to.
The focus of Drupal 7, as Dries recommended to the community, should be on interoperability and usability. This means improving internal and external APIs, enhancing data portability, and redesigning the home of Drupal, drupal.org, to better accomodate the next wave of users joining the community.
(Great to see a project lead of a major open source community paying so much attention to usability!) Read more…
I wonder if the trajectory he describes whereby proprietary data formats are ultimately superceded by open ones will also hold true for all this FLV video being created – as I recall the file format/spec is already well understood, and I know I’ve seen FLV players which were non-Adobe created.
