Results tagged “Technologies”
The Social Graph API and Surprises
On Friday, Google released an interesting new API called the "Social Graph API" which can be used to connect accounts online. The API is a concrete step in opening the social graph, and it is great to see Google demonstrating...
Time for Action: What We’re Opening Next
A few months ago, we announced that we were opening the social graph and invited others to join us. An effort like that encompasses many different technology projects and all kinds of different companies; in just a few months...
Looking Through the Hype of Scoble and Plaxo’s Facebook Conundrum
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: You should be able to control your data. And your data isn't just the words you write, or the photos you take, but the relationships and connections you make online....
OpenSocial, Killer Apps and Regular People
At Six Apart, we'll be supporting the new OpenSocial initiative to make an open platform for social applications on the web. But for us, it's not about Google or Facebook. It's about the web itself. As you can guess...
A River of Relationships
We’ve spoken recently about opening up the social graph. At last week’s Web 2.0 Summit, our own David Recordon was joined by Brad Fitzpatrick to talk about some of the first real bits of technology that have been made available...
OAuth: Share Your Ideas, Not Your Password
As we've thought more and more about the big challenges facing the social media world, we've been inspired not just by the communities that use our tools, but by the community of peers that make other great sites and services....
We Are Opening the Social Graph
Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you. No one company should own who you know and how you know them. OpenID, which was born at...
Six Apart Merges With Facebook
Yep, Six Apart merges with Facebook. The truth is, we merge in improvements to our source code from lots of companies and contributors that make fixes and patches to our open source platforms, not just the Facebook team. Oh yeah:...
Thanks, Dave!
Yesterday, Dave Winer celebrated the 10th anniversary of Scripting News, his seminal and enormously influential blog at scripting.com. Dave co-created or popularized of a broad range of blogging technologies — from RSS to podcasting to blogging itself. So this week,...
It's a look into the future!
Wanna be on the cutting edge bleeding edge with your blog? Take a look at what might be coming in the future? Well, sometimes we have rough sketches we want you to see, that we use to collect feedback and...
Microsoft Supports OpenID: A Belated Birthday Present
Have you heard about OpenID? The simple idea that your web address is one form of identity, just like your email adddress or even your physical address? Well, back in December, we mentioned how OpenID has been gaining momentum like...
Looking Ahead at Web 2007
If you can get to Mountain View, CA tonight, you should swing by Looking Ahead at Web 2007, an event being held by the Jewish High Tech Community. At 6:30 tonight at Fenwick & West's offices, I'll be joined by...
Support for nofollow
We're a blogging company, and as such, we tend to be keenly aware of problems that webloggers encounter. One of the recurring issues that our users face -- on TypePad, Movable Type, and LiveJournal -- is a need to distinguish...
PGP-Signing Comments
With the problems inherent in open commenting systems, it makes sense that the idea of PGP-signed comments is again taking shape. We discussed what a verification process might look like in December 2002 (in one of the first posts on...
Atom Specs and Test Suites
A very important piece of the Atom API and syndication format is that it is--or will be--a fully-specified format, complete with test suites and sample implementations. The atom-syntax list, and Mark Pilgrim in particular, have been doing a lot of...
Format Offering Applications, Finally
One of the "hidden" features of TypePad, which happens behind the scenes when you create a People TypeList, or blogroll, is that an XML Friend of a Friend (FOAF) file is created. FOAF lets you list the people you know,...
Software Development and Usability
As part of their coverage of the Howard Dean campaign, the latest issue of Baseline magazine includes a profile of Six Apart (and Mena and myself). It's a fairly broad piece on the company, including how it started with the...
AOL blocking LiveJournal referrals
So, according to this Slashdot piece, AOL is blocking referrals from LiveJournal. Now, after a scan of Evan Martin's post (and I haven't read the Slashdot thread), I really don't believe that this is deliberate. More likely, it's an attempt...
Why We Need Echo
Over the past couple of days there have been a number of queries as to the technical reasons why we need a new syndication format and API, rather than using RSS and the metaWeblog and/or Blogger API. Below I've outlined...
Firebird takes off
After a long few months of development and a couple of name changes, the Mozilla team has finally released Mozilla Firebird 0.6, a terrific, streamlined browser that keeps all of the powerful features of Mozilla but loses a lot of...
