Imagine a web where you never have to log in again. OpenID uses a URL as your identity. The URL defines you. Whenever a site needs to authenticate you are who you say you are, it goes to the URL for that information. Instead of a login and password, you get one button that effectively says "Let me in."

DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it: “to build a social network with its skin inside out”.

Open Data Definition allows you to copy your data from one social network to another, keep track of your friends network and synchronise your data across services. Simple to use and trivial to implement, this is your fastest route to true data portability.

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resourc

An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

Gisteren gaf het Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) het groene licht voor de acceptatie van KML als internationale industriestandaard. Bedrijven en instellingen hoeven daarom niet langer de dubben over welke technieken ze gebruiken om geografische informati

I’ve been pondering reset styles over the past few months, and come to a bit of a shift in my thinking. Here’s the result of that thinking.

Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distrib

"Who’s afraid of HTML 5? Not Lachlan Hunt! As both a front-end web developer and a contributor to HTML 5, he tells us what we can expect from the emerging markup specification, whose goals include more flexibility and greater interoperability."

There’s been a welcome resurgence of interest in web typography over the past year or so, with many articles and conference talks offering techniques and theory. Frequently asserted is the notion that good typography requires accurate control of font si

Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags etc. in web pages. These small bits of Semantic HTML will allow website viewers to interact with websites in many more ways.

hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of vCard (RFC 2426) properties and values in semantic XHTML. hCard is one of several open microformat standards suitable

The presentation Anne van Kesteren gave at Reboot 9.0 on HTML5.