A look to the past to guide us towards the future. This is a candid, level headed, and enjoyable talk about the way we've failed users.
_Harry Halpin and Blaine Cooke go through the history of standards for social networks and identity, and why they failed._
_The Augmented Social Network_ [1] 1995
RDF/FOAF
EmotionML
RSS -> Atom -> ActivityStreams
XRIs
XMPP
OpenID
OAuth
OpenID 2.0
OpenSocial
PubSubHubbub/Salmon
OpenGraph (HTML for Facebook)
ActivityStreams 2.0 (W3C Social)
Blockchains
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