Category Archives: open

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

The Next "Facebook Platform" for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter’s Running the Wrong Way

Posted on September 16, 2010 by jessestay

I’ve talked previously about “the web with no login button”, a vision of the Building Block Web that follows the user where they go, knowing who they are and adapting as they move.  With the advent of mobile, entire operating … Continue reading →

Posted in building block web, Facebook, facebook connect, facebook platform, federation, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, open data, open protocols, open web, revolution, social network, social web, Technology, Twitter | 28 Comments

Yes, Facebook Broke Your Trust, and Yes, That’s a Good Thing

Posted on May 10, 2010 by jessestay

It seems like every other post I read these days is about whether Facebook violated users trust, or whether they were wrong, or right in opening up more.  It’s eerily repetitive for someone that’s written 2 (and 3rd on the … Continue reading →

Posted in anonymity, data, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, privacy, social, Technology | 24 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

Did Google Reinvent the Wheel by Adopting the Protocols They Chose?

Posted on March 6, 2010 by jessestay

In a response to my article here, DeWitt Clinton of Google defined what he deemed the definition of “open” to be.  According to DeWitt, “the first is licensing of the protocols themselves, with respect to who can legally implement them … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, Facebook, facebook api, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, open standards, openplatform, Technology | 29 Comments

The Web is No Longer Open

Posted on March 3, 2010 by jessestay

“So it can benefit everyone.” That’s what a Google employee said today as he tried to explain Google’s recent push to have websites use the ‘rel=”me”‘ meta HTML tags to identify pages a user owns on the web.  It’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, Facebook, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, index, kynetx, open, open standards, open web, opengraph, social, Technology, web | 25 Comments

Twitter Keeps Fighting While Facebook Continues to Grow

Posted on October 22, 2009 by jessestay

Ev Williams was quoted recently saying, “The world is big enough for both Facebook and Twitter”, almost as though we were supposed to think Twitter wasn’t trying to be a competitor.  Don’t be fooled though, Twitter’s recent lists feature is … Continue reading →

Posted in bully, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, lists, open, privacy, Technology, Twitter | 39 Comments