Chris Messina

An update to my my OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist

Back in December, I posted my OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist. I listed 7 companies on my shitlist, 14 on hitlist and 12 on my wishlist. Given that it’s been all of two months but we’ve made some solid progress, ... Read more

Picking the open source candidate

My buddy whurley is at it again, but this time considering which candidate(s) is the most compatible or supportive of open source — in other words, among the many options, which could be considered the “open source candidate”? Just as ... Read more

After Social Graph FOO Camp — and a challenge for the Dat...

This past weekend I attended a topic-specific FOO Camp called Social Graph FOO Camp (otherwise known as SGFOO) organized by Scott Kveton and David Recordon (or ray-chor-dohn according to Larry). Scott’s write up is pretty complete, but I wanted to ... Read more

The Existential DiSo Interview

The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo. Here’s what I asked myself: how are you? we’re going to talk about diso today? is that right? what is diso? you say it’s a social network, so how would it ... Read more