This week I attended a meeting intended to start activity on the Big Society in the North. I went along to find out a little more and to get an impression of whether the ‘Big Society’ thing is a political ideology driven scheme to dismantle the apparatus of the social welfare system or a real [...]
At FOWA (futureofwebapps.com) Kevin Rose (digg.com), Ryan Carson (Carsonified.com), Joe Stump (digg.com), David Recordon (sixapart.com) and Chris Messina (vidoop.com) discussed the issues involved with building social networks on the ‘Open Stack’. http://vimeo.com/1971430
During a FOWA workshop Chris Messina mentioned that Will Norris had released version 3.0 of his OpenID plugin for WordPress. This version not only allows people to login using OpenID, but also allows WP to acts as a provider or delegator of OpenID. I’ve been waiting for a good robust plugin implementation that would give [...]
I just got back from 3 days at FOWA. Excellent conference, excellent speakers. I picked up so much to write about, so much to read and so much to do…