Ben Werdmuller

Category: Data control

  • Tent

    Tent appeared out of the blue today: a protocol and reference server implementation for individual-to-individual distributed social networking. Or to put it another way, Tent is a way to host your own social data – posting and reading from as many apps as you want. Here’s their announcement, and here’s the GitHub repository. The Tent […]

  • Off the hooks: user-centered development in a mobile-first world

    The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at Over the Air 2012 at Bletchley Park on June 2nd, 2012. They build on my notes for a previous talk, Building the user-centered web. Desktop isn’t enough. For the last few years, I’ve been working on latakoo, a service that lets you share […]

  • Why can’t I …

    … Embed a discussion forum in a blog post? … Stick games in an RSS feed and have them be playable in Google Reader? … Post an encyclopedia to Pinterest? … Bookmark a scene in a video? … Move my profile to another site or domain name without breaking everything? … Create a slideshow of […]

  • Activity streams: not just for the cloud

    At the end of last year, I was asked to contribute my wishlist for Linux on the desktop for an issue of Linux Format magazine. Here’s what I submitted: I want an activity stream for my activity on my local computer, and across my network. When, for example, I make a change to a document, […]