Ben Werdmuller

Month: February 2009

  • Implementing open standards is too hard

    [..] the plain truth is this: it’s empirically way too painful still for first-time OAuth developers to get their code working, and despite the fact that OAuth is a standard, the empirical “it-just-works-rate” is way too low. Joseph Smarr: Implementing OAuth is still too hard… but it doesn’t have to be. This isn’t just true […]

  • Social technology reinforces existing networks

    Why do we create and maintain social networks? Most people can immediately think of a few natural reasons — we get something from the interaction, or the person is nearby and is close to us in proximity, age or gender. But researching such theories on a large scale has never before been possible — until […]

  • Buy from marginalized communities with Elevyn

    Elevyn is a kind of Etsy for marginalized communities: a way to buy directly from artisans in poorer parts of the world. You get a unique piece of clothing, jewelry or other art; they get to lift themselves out of poverty through their own work. This is something that would be far less possible before […]

  • Andrew Orlowski vs Paul Carr and Twestival

    A group of unpaid volunteers used social media to create a global event that has already – before anything like the final total has been counted – raised a six figure amount to provide clean water to some of the world’s poorest people. Your response to that was sneering and deliberately skewed to prove your […]