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Chris Messina
Personal blog · factoryjoe.com/blogwebdesignstartups
Chris Messina writes Factory Joe, a personal blog at factoryjoe.com about web, design and startups. Since 2007, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Birth of Hashtags: Groups for Twitter”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Messina's blog for posts on the open web, identity and OpenID, Twitter hashtags, and his early work on Flock and OAuth. Commenters cite it as a source on these topics.
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- Thoughtful posts on the benefits and costs of OpenID.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Birth of Hashtags: Groups for Twitter3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-29
- The Fall of Vidoop - Chris Messina's history with an OpenID startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-06
- Thoughts on Mozilla (swf)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-05-13
- What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-16
- The Browser as "Social Agent"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-13
- Did the web fail the iPhone?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-10-18
What Hacker News says?
An early Twitter user suggested using hashtags, think he's generally credited with it: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-...
Comment linking /blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-a-proposal-for-twitter-tag-channels/
on “Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook”Submitted The death of the URL as a story · 52 points
HN discussionIt was fun working on flock. I still work with many of the guys I met there. "Wanted to destroy something beautiful" - http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/12/29/wanted-to-destroy-some...
Comment linking /blog/2005/12/29/wanted-to-destroy-something-beautiful/
on “Flock is dead”Submitted What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned [with video] as a story · 52 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I know some of the BritRuby organisers personally. I haven't spoken to them in months though, so I think I can say all this without fear of being branded either an "insider" or too biased. I have been one of the most vocal critics of gender and racial bias in the programming community in the UK in the last few years. I have wrung my hands at the misogyny, the "jokes", the lack of diversity and I have spo…
Comment linking /blog/2006/09/15/the-future-of-white-boy-clubs/
on “Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok”Submitted My name is not a URL as a story · 47 points
HN discussionThis sounds a lot like what Vidoop tried to do. Their initial idea was to replace passwords with an authentication mechanism based on selecting a number of pictures that fit into user-chosen categories. A person would select 3-5 images from a grid of 12 with each image belonging to a distinct category. Those who picked the images, in the correct order, corresponding to their chosen categories (selected on sign up to…
Comment linking /blog/2009/06/05/the-fall-of-vidoop/
on “Goodbye (Crummy) CAPTCHAs. Hello Ad Dollars?”Submitted Chris Messina's Thoughts on Opera Unite as a story · 45 points
HN discussionthe upshot is that my old Mac Mini was able to sustain 4 hours at the top slot on Hacker News without load exceeding 0.3 I thought everyone had learned to not run anything on Mac Minis (and take backups) after the Magnolia incident: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/02/16/what-really-happened-a...
Comment linking /blog/2009/02/16/what-really-happened-at-magnolia-and-lessons-learned/
on “Simple wins”Submitted Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 at the height of cynicism as a story · 39 points
HN discussionAs well there are a good deal of precidence of Apple doing this: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Konfabulator_Inventor... http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/08/apples-research-rip-of... http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/apple-tablet-ebook/ http://gizmodo.com/5046463/apple-admits-british-man-invented...
Comment linking /blog/2006/08/08/apples-research-rip-off-department/
on “Entrepreneur Wins $625 Million Payout From Apple”Submitted When all I seem to do is bitch, bitch, bitch as a story · 24 points
HN discussionReminds me of Chris Messina's talk “Identity is the Platform”. http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/10/01/video-of-my-talk-ident...
Comment linking /blog/2009/10/01/video-of-my-talk-identity-is-the-platform/
on “Boycott the Button (Facebook Connect)”Submitted The Fall of Vidoop - Chris Messina's history with an OpenID startup as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThe reliably thoughtful Chris Messina just posted on the benefits and costs of OpenID, partly in response to a decision by linkmarking site http://Ma.gnolia.com to stop accepting traditional address and password registrations in favor of OpenID only. http://FactoryJoe.com/blog/2008/03/30/magnolia-moves-to-open... In the cat and mouse game between site owners and spammers, data on recent Ma.gnolia registrations showe…
Comment linking /blog/2008/03/30/magnolia-moves-to-openid-only-sign-ups/
on “Ask HN: Why should I use OpenID?”Submitted Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect as a story · 15 points
HN discussionChris Messina is working on something like this ~ http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/09/21/announcing-oauth-10-pu...
Comment linking /blog/2007/09/21/announcing-oauth-10-public-draft-1/
on “Paul Buchheit: The next big adventure”Submitted "Developing iPhone apps now means postponing a better and more capable web" as a story · 13 points
HN discussionLink to said vlog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/05/10/thoughts-on-mozilla/
Comment linking /blog/2007/05/10/thoughts-on-mozilla/
on “Google Hires Chris Messina”Submitted Understanding the Open Graph Protocol as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMy programming (development) resources include sources that are as much a evolution of the Internet itself. There's news:, pre Web, then web 1/1.5 and finally web2.0. You may notice the sites are not always exclusively about "programming" . Why? Well I find that a lot of the best stuff occurs at the edges of programming/development in lots of different areas. This wide scanning of sources is an attempt to avoid the…
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on “Ask YC: Your best programming websites/blogs”Submitted What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned as a story · 6 points
HN discussionChris Messina wrote a blog post about this as well: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/01/28/what-paypals-member-in...
Comment linking /blog/2009/01/28/what-paypals-member-in-the-openid-foundation-could-mean/
on “PayPal Joins OpenID Foundation Board”Submitted OAuth Core 1.0 Final Draft is out: Now go build stuff! as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe amount of links are intended to provide evidence of what I'm talking about — and yes, there's a lot of them. The only link that I think adds an additional structuring of my overall point about the web and the iPhone is a post I wrote in 2007: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/17/did-the-web-fail-the-i... You can skip the rest if you've been paying attention.
Comment linking /blog/2007/10/17/did-the-web-fail-the-iphone/
on “a thread”Submitted Where we’re going with Activity Streams as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenID on the iPhone- If you're building a mobile web app, please use OpenID as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did the web fail the iPhone? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity as a story · 3 points
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