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Episode 28: "An Open Discussion with Facebook"

Chris Messina, Joseph Smarr, and John McCrea welcome special guests from Facebook, Dave Morin and Luke Shepard, for a recap of this historic week's events: Facebook joins the OpenID Foundation; Facebook hosts a great OpenID UX Design Summit; and Plaxo shares the stunning results of its "Two-Click Signup" experiment with Google. Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• John McCrea's coverage of the summit: Live Blogging the OpenID Design Summit
• Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb on the summit: Photos From Facebook HQ: Free Love, Free Jerky & Freedom for User Data
• Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb on the Plaxo/Google Experiment: Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID Method
• Chris Messina's video clips from the summit

Episode 27: "F**k it, let's do it live!"

Chris Messina, David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, and John McCrea welcome return guest, Marc Canter for a live open discussion of Marc's "dashboard" idea.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Marc's DiSO Dashboard Outline proposal
• Marc's book How to build the Open Mesh
• Marc's video How to build the Open Mesh
• Marc's How to build the Open Mesh wiki

Episode 26: "Google and Plaxo tackle OpenID UX"

Joseph Smarr and John McCrea welcome special guests from Google, Dirk Balfanz and Breno de Medeiros, to discuss the rollout of "hybrid" OpenID/Oauth and an experiment of "Two-Click Signup" from Google to Plaxo, based on the hybrid approach. Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Google's blog post on the Hybrid rollout: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together
• John McCrea's post on the Plaxo blog: Introducing Two-Click Signup, an initiative to improve the user experience of OpenID; first test now live with Google

Episode 25: "An 'Open' Letter to the Obama Administration"

Chris Messina, Joseph Smarr, and John McCrea, inspired by a question from Max Engel via Twitter, create in video an "open" letter to the Obama administration. Should the U.S. government become an online identity provider? Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• A startup in private beta that's letting folks with an OpenID in without an invite: 97bottles
• A post on JanRain's blog with results from several deployments of RPX: Why Websites Should Accept Multiple Third Party Identity Account Logins

Episode 24: "On Feeds and OpenID Momentum"

David Recordon and John McCrea breeze through six different news stories of another busy week in the emergence of the open Social Web. Items include: Yahoo adds 20 external feeds; Jaiku reborn as open source code; Six Apart's TypePad Connect enhances OpenID support; Plaxo adds Amazon product images for product reviews; and OpenID reaches 30,000 sites and over half a billion users.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld on Yahoo adding external feeds: Yahoo Becomes More FriendFeed-like, Adds Updates from 20 Outside Sites
• Jyri Engstrom, founder of Jaiku, on what's really happening with the Jaiku codebase: Signal (and noise) about Jaiku this week
• iLike's official blog post on integration with Google Friend Connect: Add Social Playlists to Any Website
• David Recordon's post on OpenID's dramatic progress last year: 2008: Momentum
• Wired's Michael Calore on OpenID and Six Apart's TypePad Connect: Want Proof that OpenID Cn Succeed? Just Scroll Down

Episode 23: "Starting 2009 with a Bang"

It's a full house, with Chris, David, Joseph, and John all on hand to ring in the New Year. There's so much going on that we spilled over the 20 minute mark! We also covered "doing mashups right" and progress on an open standard for Acitivity Streams.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• John McCrea's post on the Open Stack Meetup: For Posterity: The First-Ever “Open Stack” Meetup
• Where you can find the videos from the Open Stack Meetup: Redgee's Videos on Viddler
• ReadWriteWeb's Rick Turoczy on the election results: OpenID Foundation Board Election Results Announced
• It's time to vote: OpenID Foundation Board of Director Election Now Open
• Wired.com's Scott Gilbertson on the new version of iPhoto: Apple Embraces Social Networks With iLife '09
• TechCrunch's Michael Arrington on Facebook and Power.com: Facebook Defends Its Turf, Sues Power.com
• ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Activity Streams Meetup: Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams

Episode 22: "The 2008 Year-End Holiday Special"

Chris returns to join John and Joseph for the first-ever year-end holiday show! It's a don't-miss episode, chock full of news, the year-in-review, and some bold predictions for 2009. (And sorry for the delayed posting; we had some upload/encode issues at Viddler.)

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Erica Naone's piece in Technology Review on Twitter being integrated in Google Friend Connect: Can't We All Just Get Along?
• John's post on the rollout of JanRain's RPX for Universal Music: As Online Identity War Breaks Out, JanRain Becomes Switzerland
• Brad Stone's piece in the New York Times suggesting LinkedIn is moving to become an online identity provider: A Shake-Up at LinkedIn
• It's time to vote: OpenID Foundation Board of Director Election Now Open
• David's post on SixApart's launch of Motion: Motion for Movable Type
• John's 2009 predictions: The Social Web: My Predictions for 2009
• John's post right after Friday evening's Open Stack Meetup: For Posterity: The First-Ever “Open Stack” Meetup

Special Episode: "Open Love from Le Web"

Joseph, David, and Chris were all traveling this week, so we didn't shoot a new episode of The Social Web TV. Instead, we present video coverage of the "open" panel at Le Web, hosted by Marc Canter, and featuring David Glazer of Google, David Recordon of SixApart, Max Engel of MySpace, Dave Morin of Facebook, and Jeff Hansen from Microsoft.

Episode 21: "Facebook Connect vs. OpenID?"

John and Joseph tackle the question of "Facebook Connect vs. OpenID?" in an episode recorded yesterday, December 4, 2008, the day that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect were made available to all. A few hours later, in a related blogpost, John goes on to declare that the day marks "the birth of the Social Web".

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Brad Stone's piece in the New York Times: Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
• Michael Calore's piece on Wired.com, which inspired this episode: As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
• A post by John McCrea that Wired calls "essential reading": Birth of the Social Web: Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect Now Available to All
• Open Stack event scheduled for December 19: Learning About the Open Stack for the Social Web

Episode 20: "Yahoo Ups the Ante for Online Identity"

John and Joseph cover another busy week for opening up the Social Web with a primary focus on Yahoo's latest iteration of their implementation of OpenID. In a test release that went live today between Yahoo and Plaxo, new users can sign up for Plaxo with their Yahoo OpenID and choose to bring over their basic profile info. John and Joseph give a "magical" demo of this much-improved onboarding flow.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• From the OpenSocial blog: Glam Media announces new OpenSocial developer platform
• John McCrea's post on the great CitySearch/Facebook integration: CitySearch Goes Social with Great Facebook Connect Implementation
• Yahoo announces their test of the new OpenID implementation: Yahoo! OpenID limited testing for Simple Registration support

Episode 27: "F**k it, let's do it live!"

Chris Messina, David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, and John McCrea welcome return guest, Marc Canter for a live open discussion of Marc's "dashboard" idea.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Marc's DiSO Dashboard Outline proposal
• Marc's book How to build the Open Mesh
• Marc's video How to build the Open Mesh
• Marc's How to build the Open Mesh wiki

Episode 26: "Google and Plaxo tackle OpenID UX"

Joseph Smarr and John McCrea welcome special guests from Google, Dirk Balfanz and Breno de Medeiros, to discuss the rollout of "hybrid" OpenID/Oauth and an experiment of "Two-Click Signup" from Google to Plaxo, based on the hybrid approach. Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Google's blog post on the Hybrid rollout: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together
• John McCrea's post on the Plaxo blog: Introducing Two-Click Signup, an initiative to improve the user experience of OpenID; first test now live with Google

Episode 25: "An 'Open' Letter to the Obama Administration"

Chris Messina, Joseph Smarr, and John McCrea, inspired by a question from Max Engel via Twitter, create in video an "open" letter to the Obama administration. Should the U.S. government become an online identity provider? Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• A startup in private beta that's letting folks with an OpenID in without an invite: 97bottles
• A post on JanRain's blog with results from several deployments of RPX: Why Websites Should Accept Multiple Third Party Identity Account Logins

Episode 24: "On Feeds and OpenID Momentum"

David Recordon and John McCrea breeze through six different news stories of another busy week in the emergence of the open Social Web. Items include: Yahoo adds 20 external feeds; Jaiku reborn as open source code; Six Apart's TypePad Connect enhances OpenID support; Plaxo adds Amazon product images for product reviews; and OpenID reaches 30,000 sites and over half a billion users.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld on Yahoo adding external feeds: Yahoo Becomes More FriendFeed-like, Adds Updates from 20 Outside Sites
• Jyri Engstrom, founder of Jaiku, on what's really happening with the Jaiku codebase: Signal (and noise) about Jaiku this week
• iLike's official blog post on integration with Google Friend Connect: Add Social Playlists to Any Website
• David Recordon's post on OpenID's dramatic progress last year: 2008: Momentum
• Wired's Michael Calore on OpenID and Six Apart's TypePad Connect: Want Proof that OpenID Cn Succeed? Just Scroll Down

Episode 23: "Starting 2009 with a Bang"

It's a full house, with Chris, David, Joseph, and John all on hand to ring in the New Year. There's so much going on that we spilled over the 20 minute mark! We also covered "doing mashups right" and progress on an open standard for Acitivity Streams.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• John McCrea's post on the Open Stack Meetup: For Posterity: The First-Ever “Open Stack” Meetup
• Where you can find the videos from the Open Stack Meetup: Redgee's Videos on Viddler
• ReadWriteWeb's Rick Turoczy on the election results: OpenID Foundation Board Election Results Announced
• It's time to vote: OpenID Foundation Board of Director Election Now Open
• Wired.com's Scott Gilbertson on the new version of iPhoto: Apple Embraces Social Networks With iLife '09
• TechCrunch's Michael Arrington on Facebook and Power.com: Facebook Defends Its Turf, Sues Power.com
• ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Activity Streams Meetup: Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams

Episode 22: "The 2008 Year-End Holiday Special"

Chris returns to join John and Joseph for the first-ever year-end holiday show! It's a don't-miss episode, chock full of news, the year-in-review, and some bold predictions for 2009. (And sorry for the delayed posting; we had some upload/encode issues at Viddler.)

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Erica Naone's piece in Technology Review on Twitter being integrated in Google Friend Connect: Can't We All Just Get Along?
• John's post on the rollout of JanRain's RPX for Universal Music: As Online Identity War Breaks Out, JanRain Becomes Switzerland
• Brad Stone's piece in the New York Times suggesting LinkedIn is moving to become an online identity provider: A Shake-Up at LinkedIn
• It's time to vote: OpenID Foundation Board of Director Election Now Open
• David's post on SixApart's launch of Motion: Motion for Movable Type
• John's 2009 predictions: The Social Web: My Predictions for 2009
• John's post right after Friday evening's Open Stack Meetup: For Posterity: The First-Ever “Open Stack” Meetup

Special Episode: "Open Love from Le Web"

Joseph, David, and Chris were all traveling this week, so we didn't shoot a new episode of The Social Web TV. Instead, we present video coverage of the "open" panel at Le Web, hosted by Marc Canter, and featuring David Glazer of Google, David Recordon of SixApart, Max Engel of MySpace, Dave Morin of Facebook, and Jeff Hansen from Microsoft.

Episode 21: "Facebook Connect vs. OpenID?"

John and Joseph tackle the question of "Facebook Connect vs. OpenID?" in an episode recorded yesterday, December 4, 2008, the day that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect were made available to all. A few hours later, in a related blogpost, John goes on to declare that the day marks "the birth of the Social Web".

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Brad Stone's piece in the New York Times: Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
• Michael Calore's piece on Wired.com, which inspired this episode: As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
• A post by John McCrea that Wired calls "essential reading": Birth of the Social Web: Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect Now Available to All
• Open Stack event scheduled for December 19: Learning About the Open Stack for the Social Web

Episode 20: "Yahoo Ups the Ante for Online Identity"

John and Joseph cover another busy week for opening up the Social Web with a primary focus on Yahoo's latest iteration of their implementation of OpenID. In a test release that went live today between Yahoo and Plaxo, new users can sign up for Plaxo with their Yahoo OpenID and choose to bring over their basic profile info. John and Joseph give a "magical" demo of this much-improved onboarding flow.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• From the OpenSocial blog: Glam Media announces new OpenSocial developer platform
• John McCrea's post on the great CitySearch/Facebook integration: CitySearch Goes Social with Great Facebook Connect Implementation
• Yahoo announces their test of the new OpenID implementation: Yahoo! OpenID limited testing for Simple Registration support

Episode 25: "An 'Open' Letter to the Obama Administration"

Chris Messina, Joseph Smarr, and John McCrea, inspired by a question from Max Engel via Twitter, create in video an "open" letter to the Obama administration. Should the U.S. government become an online identity provider? Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• A startup in private beta that's letting folks with an OpenID in without an invite: 97bottles
• A post on JanRain's blog with results from several deployments of RPX: Why Websites Should Accept Multiple Third Party Identity Account Logins

Episode 24: "On Feeds and OpenID Momentum"

David Recordon and John McCrea breeze through six different news stories of another busy week in the emergence of the open Social Web. Items include: Yahoo adds 20 external feeds; Jaiku reborn as open source code; Six Apart's TypePad Connect enhances OpenID support; Plaxo adds Amazon product images for product reviews; and OpenID reaches 30,000 sites and over half a billion users.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld on Yahoo adding external feeds: Yahoo Becomes More FriendFeed-like, Adds Updates from 20 Outside Sites
• Jyri Engstrom, founder of Jaiku, on what's really happening with the Jaiku codebase: Signal (and noise) about Jaiku this week
• iLike's official blog post on integration with Google Friend Connect: Add Social Playlists to Any Website
• David Recordon's post on OpenID's dramatic progress last year: 2008: Momentum
• Wired's Michael Calore on OpenID and Six Apart's TypePad Connect: Want Proof that OpenID Cn Succeed? Just Scroll Down

Episode 23: "Starting 2009 with a Bang"

It's a full house, with Chris, David, Joseph, and John all on hand to ring in the New Year. There's so much going on that we spilled over the 20 minute mark! We also covered "doing mashups right" and progress on an open standard for Acitivity Streams.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• John McCrea's post on the Open Stack Meetup: For Posterity: The First-Ever “Open Stack” Meetup
• Where you can find the videos from the Open Stack Meetup: Redgee's Videos on Viddler
• ReadWriteWeb's Rick Turoczy on the election results: OpenID Foundation Board Election Results Announced
• It's time to vote: OpenID Foundation Board of Director Election Now Open
• Wired.com's Scott Gilbertson on the new version of iPhoto: Apple Embraces Social Networks With iLife '09
• TechCrunch's Michael Arrington on Facebook and Power.com: Facebook Defends Its Turf, Sues Power.com
• ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Activity Streams Meetup: Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams

Episode 22: "The 2008 Year-End Holiday Special"

Chris returns to join John and Joseph for the first-ever year-end holiday show! It's a don't-miss episode, chock full of news, the year-in-review, and some bold predictions for 2009. (And sorry for the delayed posting; we had some upload/encode issues at Viddler.)

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Erica Naone's piece in Technology Review on Twitter being integrated in Google Friend Connect: Can't We All Just Get Along?
• John's post on the rollout of JanRain's RPX for Universal Music: As Online Identity War Breaks Out, JanRain Becomes Switzerland
• Brad Stone's piece in the New York Times suggesting LinkedIn is moving to become an online identity provider: A Shake-Up at LinkedIn
• It's time to vote: OpenID Foundation Board of Director Election Now Open
• David's post on SixApart's launch of Motion: Motion for Movable Type
• John's 2009 predictions: The Social Web: My Predictions for 2009
• John's post right after Friday evening's Open Stack Meetup: For Posterity: The First-Ever “Open Stack” Meetup

Special Episode: "Open Love from Le Web"

Joseph, David, and Chris were all traveling this week, so we didn't shoot a new episode of The Social Web TV. Instead, we present video coverage of the "open" panel at Le Web, hosted by Marc Canter, and featuring David Glazer of Google, David Recordon of SixApart, Max Engel of MySpace, Dave Morin of Facebook, and Jeff Hansen from Microsoft.

Episode 21: "Facebook Connect vs. OpenID?"

John and Joseph tackle the question of "Facebook Connect vs. OpenID?" in an episode recorded yesterday, December 4, 2008, the day that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect were made available to all. A few hours later, in a related blogpost, John goes on to declare that the day marks "the birth of the Social Web".

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• Brad Stone's piece in the New York Times: Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
• Michael Calore's piece on Wired.com, which inspired this episode: As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
• A post by John McCrea that Wired calls "essential reading": Birth of the Social Web: Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect Now Available to All
• Open Stack event scheduled for December 19: Learning About the Open Stack for the Social Web

Episode 20: "Yahoo Ups the Ante for Online Identity"

John and Joseph cover another busy week for opening up the Social Web with a primary focus on Yahoo's latest iteration of their implementation of OpenID. In a test release that went live today between Yahoo and Plaxo, new users can sign up for Plaxo with their Yahoo OpenID and choose to bring over their basic profile info. John and Joseph give a "magical" demo of this much-improved onboarding flow.

Watch HiRes

Links related to this episode:

• From the OpenSocial blog: Glam Media announces new OpenSocial developer platform
• John McCrea's post on the great CitySearch/Facebook integration: CitySearch Goes Social with Great Facebook Connect Implementation
• Yahoo announces their test of the new OpenID implementation: Yahoo! OpenID limited testing for Simple Registration support