Social Network Interop Chat

Posted on June 11, 2008
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Chris, David, and Brian on Social Network Interop:


Talking Social Network Interop @ GSP East from Brian Oberkirch on Vimeo.

XRDS-Simple On The Move

Posted on June 4, 2008
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DiSo is built on the idea of implementing social networking concepts on existing standards where possible. One of those standards is XRDS Simple, a service description and discovery format that is a part of several recent and upcoming standards including OpenID and OAuth.

Since last week, when I released the first version of XRDS-Simple for Movable Type, there’s been some more movement in the implementation space:

There’s also talk of rolling OpenID delegation (currently one of the most common use of XRDS) into a couple of the plugins, and we’re also on the lookout for more services that are using, might use, or should be using XRDS for service discovery. We (and by “we” I mean the DiSo community) are also looking for XRDS parser implementations that can be used in integration and interop testing. Some brief Googling turned up parsers in:

If you’ve got pointers to other implementations (providing or consuming), or other thoughts, hit us up in the comments.

Update: In doing some reading it looks like a working Yadis parser (like those found in several OpenID implementations) may also work for parsing the XRDS-Simple output by these generators. Any confirmation/corrections are welcome.

Interview with Chris Messina about DiSo by David Cohn

Posted on June 2, 2008
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David Cohn grabbed this interview with at the Net Squared conference in San Jose last week. In it, I discuss what DiSo is, what the point is and briefly enumerate the various technologies that make up the DiSo “stack”:

Chris and Will join Vidoop

Posted on May 13, 2008
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DiSo developers Chris Messina and Will Norris will be joining the Vidoop team to work on the DiSo project full time. Read the various announcements at:

Citizen Garden podcast on DiSo and identity in 2008

Posted on December 25, 2007
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Larry Halff and I took 30 minutes to talk about our expectations for the new year, in particular focusing on where identity and the Citizen Web are likely headed given current indicators.

This is the first of a (hopefully) new podcast series called Citizen Garden, a collaboration between Citizen Agency and Ma.gnolia is now available.

Chris on LikeItMatters podcast

Posted on December 14, 2007
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Chris was on the LikeItMatters podcast today, talking about DiSo, social networking, OpenID, etc. It was a great conversation and Chris does a good job

WP OpenID move to DiSo repo now complete

Posted on December 11, 2007
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Quick update, Will Norris’ wp-openid plugin for wordpress has been moved to the DiSo code repository. More on this later.

Welcome to the Diso Project

Posted on December 7, 2007
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While we get things up and running here on the blog, check out some recent DiSo-related posts: