Category Archives: Open Web

#OpenWebTO Meetup

On Tuesday, March 2nd at 7pm, I’ll be hosting the first #OpenWebTO Meetup at the Centre for Social Innovation. My goal is to get a group of people interested in open web tech together to present, chat, and share ideas. The first meeting will be focused on figuring out what people want out of such [...]

Google Webfinger

This is pretty old news, but I missed the original announcement and I think it’s pretty interesting. Google have implemented an alpha of the WebFinger protocol. If you have a Google profile, click on “Edit your profile” and add ‘webfingeralpha’ as an interest. Congrats, your gmail address is now a WebFinger identifier and will resolve [...]

Social Web Workshop

Chris Messina was in Toronto last week and ran a full day workshop on social web technologies at the Centre for Social Innovation. He had delivered a talk the night before called “Identity is the Platform” (slides) and the workshop focused on many of the same topics. The simplest way that I can think of [...]