Category Archives: open standards

Better Noise Control on Google+ is Coming, but its More Beautiful Than You Think

Posted on July 23, 2011 by jessestay

Over the last 2 or 3 years Facebook, Google, Plaxo, Myspace, and others have all been working on a standard to make fixing the noise problem easier. It’s called ActivityStrea.ms (pronouced “Activity Streams”), and its intention was to make it … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, google plus, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open standards, social, Technology | 3 Comments

Facebook Listens. RSS Added Back to Pages. Will Twitter be next?

Posted on May 21, 2011 by jessestay

In perhaps one of my most controversial articles (unintentionally), I wrote a week or two ago about how both Twitter and Facebook both quietly removed RSS from user accounts and Pages. Of course, with Facebook, on user accounts that made … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open standards, rss, Technology | 13 Comments

Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS, Completely

Posted on May 8, 2011 by jessestay

Last year I shared how Twitter was moving more and more towards a closed, less-standards oriented model of sharing content as they upgraded their design to bring more people to the Twitter.com website. At that time, they removed the prominent … Continue reading →

Posted in http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open standards, rss, Technology | 118 Comments

Privacy is Not an On and Off Switch – "Do Not Track" is Not the Answer

Posted on January 30, 2011 by jessestay

Victoria Salisbury wrote an excellent blog post today on “Who’s Creepier? Facebook or Google?“.  I’ve been intrigued by the hypocrisy over criticism of Facebook’s own very granular privacy controls when sites like Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, and others have an … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Clients, Facebook, Google, Gowalla, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, information cards, open standards, open web, privacy, Technology, Twitter, WWW | 7 Comments

Are Toll Roads Open?

Posted on November 18, 2010 by jessestay

Twitter proved me wrong. Well, sorta. After my last article I had a whole slurry of rebuttals by Twitter employees suggesting my last article had “serious factual errors” and that the move by Twitter to charge $360,000 a year for … Continue reading →

Posted in firehose, Gnip, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, open standards, Paywall, Technology, Twitter | 18 Comments

Twitter’s Gnip Deal Ensures a Closed Ecosystem

Posted on November 17, 2010 by jessestay

Today, at Defrag conference, Twitter announced a new deal with the Real-Time stream proxy Gnip, where for $360,000 per year they will search 50% of all content posted to Twitter.  This move follows the move, as I mentioned earlier, of … Continue reading →

Posted in Defrag, Defrag conference, Gnip, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open ecosystem, open standards, pubsubhubbub, social, Technology, Twitter | 2 Comments

Mobile, Tablets, and the Need for an Extended E-Reading Experience

Posted on August 12, 2010 by jessestay

Imagine buying a book from the book store and only being allowed to use a yellow highlighter to highlight that book and not being able to add any notes as you read it.  Seems pretty ridiculous, doesn’t it?  Yet we’re … Continue reading →

Posted in amazon, Apple, e-books, e-reader, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, ibooks, kindle, open standards, platforms, reader, social, Technology | Leave a comment

Pornography and Choice – The Dilemma Over the Future of Open

Posted on May 17, 2010 by jessestay

I’ve been following the Ryan Tate late-night rant (language) over Steve Jobs’ desire for a world “free from porn” and his objections therein (while still not completely sure the purpose for his rant).  While pornography was only one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Changing the World, children, choice, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open standards, open web, porn, pornography, protection, solutions, Technology, web | 29 Comments

Facebook Launches OpenGraphProtocol.org: Adds Second Product to the OWFa

Posted on April 22, 2010 by jessestay

Just two years ago at OSCON, Facebook, Google, Myspace, and others all joined forces to create the Open Web Foundation, a sort of GPL-like agreement for platform builders to have a common agreement users could understand.  Facebook announced their first … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, open graph protocol, open standards, open web foundation, owfa, social, Technology | 7 Comments