Comments on: What DiSo Means to Me http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/ Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing Fri, 25 May 2012 15:11:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WordPress and Social Networks « Changing Way http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-4621 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:31:37 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-4621 [...] prominent projects out there that use the WordPress blog software to build social networks. One, DiSo, is prominent because of its links with standards [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-3669 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:00:38 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-3669 Chris,
Thanks for stopping by, and for taking well my comments on your prose. All the best with DiSo. I hope that your starting with WordPress will give the WordPress folks a nudge about OpenID and, in particular, toward being an OpenID consumer.

]]> By: Chris Messina http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-3668 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:10:57 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-3668 Hi Andrew — and thanks for the write up. I’ll admit that sometimes I get a little carried away with my own rhetoric; I seem to do better when I’m commenting on other people’s words than when given free reign with my own. C’est la vie.

Anyway, WordPress simply lays the groundwork, primarily because I had an existing plugin to build on, and because it supports XFN already, so it gave us a uniform and widely supported means to describe people’s relationships. Beyond that, I just want to explore the realm of what it would mean to run your own node of a distributed social network!

As you pointed out, this year has been spent largely working on the protocols to enable this kind of thing to be built and then to be widely adopted; next year should be about taking these technologies for granted (in a good way) and see what’s possible… a little like when Firefox came around and enabled web designers to *finally* use web standards! :)

]]> By: paresh http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-3663 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:15:03 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/12/12/what-diso-means-to-me/#comment-3663 :) I too found Anne’s post too WP-centric. In fact i initially thought DiSo was going to be a platform built over WP. I completely missed this part – It’ll initially produce code that works with WordPress.

Your post makes it much clearer. Thanks.

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