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Chris Messina
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Chris Messina writes Factory Joe, a personal blog at factoryjoe.com about web and startups. Since 2007, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels (2007)”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels (2007)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-29
- The social agent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-13
- Thoughts on Mozilla (swf)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-05-13
- The Fall of Vidoop - Chris Messina's history with an OpenID startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-06
- What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-16
- 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…
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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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