Just had the pleasure of meeting Brian Hendrickson (worked on authorization for ident.ica and http://openmicroblogger.org/). He may be interested in joining our efforts depending on time/interest. Shot him an invite to p2
Just had the pleasure of meeting Brian Hendrickson (worked on authorization for ident.ica and http://openmicroblogger.org/). He may be interested in joining our efforts depending on time/interest. Shot him an invite to p2
brian 7:55 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink
thanks Mark, it was fun chatting with you today. I really like the message you put together in that youtube video today. Social networks like Twitter and Facebook will become decentralized, they are the new AOL and Compuserve. I learned this while coaching high school tennis a few years ago, all of the kids on my team were living their social lives in these centralized un-web-like sites and I knew the direction we were heading. I think it’s great that you guys are taking this so seriously, a lot of technologists just seem to think it’s a war between Twitter and Facebook
messel 8:20 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink
Appreciate your interest Brian. I’m in a little over my head on the software end. There’s so many ways to proceed. At the moment I’m trying to build a simple log in and oauth authentication system so folks can login using their friendfeed, twitter, or facebook credentials (will add openid as desired). As I’m fairly new to web programming (did desktop coding with c++ for a little under 14years), I would have expected all of this would be freely available in a library, and I think some of it is.
As far as licensing goes I think we’re ok to use Apache 2.0 and MIT open license for potential business apps right?
Vlad 10:34 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink
Welcome Brian. Great to have youre input.
brian 5:10 pm on July 27, 2009 Permalink
Thanks Vlad, nice to meet you. Yes you can build on MIT license stuff and that’s what I choose for my open source projects, which I host on github mostly. I’m not as familiar with Apache 2.0 but if it’s a Berkeley-style license you’re pretty well good to go. Thanks for the mention in your blog post today, I hardly deserve to be grouped with Dave Winer, tho
messel 5:24 pm on July 27, 2009 Permalink
Glad you enjoyed the post. It’s ok getting grouped with Dave, you both share a vision for open social media and real time internet unleashed.