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Open Source and the Open Social Web

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Chemistry
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osb2010-0426
Scheduled: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 from 3:45 – 4:30pm in Steel
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Open Source software has been instrumental in the development of every revolutionary communications technology on the Internet. The Open social Web is no different.

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Email had Sendmail, and the Web itself had Apache. Open Source software has been instrumental in the development of every revolutionary communications technology on the Internet. In this talk, StatusNet founder Evan Prodromou will discuss the state of the open social web and how projects like StatusNet, Elgg, WordPress, and Drupal are working to make a distributed and open social network across the Internet. He’ll discuss security standards like OpenID and OAuth, as well as real-time publishing systems like PubSubHubbub and Salmon, data structures like Activity Streams as well as application suites like OStatus.

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Drupal, oauth, openid, opensource, wordpress, opensocialweb, openweb, ostatus, statusnet, activitystreams, pubsubhubbub, salmon

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    Evan Prodromou

    StatusNet, Inc.

    Biography

    Evan Prodromou is a developer and entrepreneur based in Montreal. Best known for starting Wikitravel, the collaborative Open Content travel guide, he has worked on Open Source software and the Web for 15 years. His most recent project, StatusNet, is a microblogging platform used by over 25,000 sites across the Web. Prodromou is founder and CEO of StatusNet, Inc., which manages Identi.ca and provides service and support for the StatusNet microblogging software.

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