Amber Case: Passion Projects - IndieWeb
Amber Case:watch @caseorganic talk live at http://passion-projects.github.io/live
Amber is my superhero for stepping in at the last minute to take over from a cancelled speaker
Julie Ann Horvath:I'm going to talk about the IndieWeb - the independent Web
I want to demonstrate POSSE - post on your own site, syndicate elsewhere.
it used to be when you shared to twitter or facebook, all comments were stuck there but brid.gy brings them back
I'm going to log in with my own domain name - this uses IndieAuth - it's like oAuth but indie
I'm going to make a note on my site and syndicate to twitter and facebook, or even to medium
here is my post on my site: http://caseorganic.com/notes/2014/04/17/4/indieweb
oh wow, look at all these people responding! The demo works.
it uses my short url anth.ro which I had to talk to a Romanian bank to get
IndieAuth works by linking form your own site to twitter github etc and back, to prove it is you
this presentation is hosted on my own site, so I don't have to worry about someone deleting it
Do you remember geocities? Myspace? Upcoming? posterous? Gowalla? Lavabit? did your stuff vanish?
when sites die, they can be nice like posterous, and let you get your data back. Or they can be like AOL hometoen
When AOL Hometown shut down they didn't email people, they put a notice on the Hometown site, which no-one went to
one poor AOL hometown user posted "fortunately I saved my website to geocities"
we're all sharecropping on these sites like facebook indiewebcamp.com/sharecropping
here is my favourite version of twitter ( c. 2008) - when the site UI changes it's like my house being rearranged
We're losing ownership up Maslow's hierarchy- we're now renting out self actualization from social networks
back in 2003 people were making their own (weird, quirky) websites, and learning about the web
back in 2003 we had blogs and our own domains to host our identity, and they learned to code with their blogs
blog software let you adapt your site if you knew how to code, or write if you didn't
the RSS and Atom wars happened, and we ended up with Friendster, facebook, myspace and twitter
these social network sites unified the reading and writing experiences, because reading feeds got hard
there was a thing called pingback and trackback that was machine-generated to show links - it got full of spam
there is not a lot of personal blog activity - WordPress is dominant, medium has some too
Medium did have some terms of service that were worrying - they could use your content forever, that got fixed
now short status update are an acceptable form of content, but we need to own our own data
back in 2008 @blaine and Ralph Meijer stayed up all night at Foo camp and got twitter talking to jaiku
in 2010 at the Federeted Social Web Summit, @aaronpk and @t and I realised that standards came after working code
A lot of times standards happen because somebody makes a temporary solution, and then get lost in committees
@t and @aaronpk and I decided to make IndieWebCamp - show don't tell; creators only; your own domain name to come
to register for IndieWebCamp, you had to have your own domain name, log in with OpenID and use mediawiki
this meant we had people who came who could cope with things that were messy
The problem with all the standards people is that they fight on mailing lists, so IndieWeb has no mailing lists
instead of a mailing list we have IRC, so we can use the Loqi bot to send them a message for later
when there is enough stuff in the IRC, someone will document it on a wiki page
I asked Brad Cunningham why wikis work and he said that error pages become opportunities to fix things
@baline says when stories win over implementations, the best storyteller wins, not the best solution
Principles: POSSE Publish Own Site, Share Elsewhere
if POSSE isn't possible, use PESOS - Post Elsewhere, Share to Own Site - it's a bandaid
Sandeep.io created WebMention - if you mention a post you can tell them to look it up and show it on their site
We added IndieWeb Event RSVP so we can get RSVPs back from facebook too
We need an IndieWeb because you might lose photos and files, if the site shuts down, gets bought or changes ToS
IndieWeb is Freedom - to decide what to post and where to share it
Homestead, don't Sharecrop! - have a home for your own data, that can't be taken from you
the community has built a lot of tools, many open source so you cna set these up
What to do? Own your Own domain - they're cheap
Join the indieweb IRC channel: http://indiewebcamp.com/IRC
come to an indiewebcamp next is in NYC april 26-27 http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/NYC/Guest_List
Amber Case:putting your content in silos is like having a bunch of ex-boyfriends who won't give your stuff back
we're going to take questions from the audience, I'll repeat
audience q:where did you get your socks?
Julie Ann Horvath:they're from japan, and they feature capybaras which are awesome animals in a hottub in japan
Amber Case:audience q: are these technologies at the point where your grandmother could use them?
Julie Ann Horvath:I'm glad you asked, I prepared an answer at http://indiewebcamp.com/generations for people who cna join in
as we go through these generations of communities, we grow more people and make it more formal and easier
I'm giving you a sneak peek into an immature technology that is growing slowly
Amber Case:audience q: how do terms of service handle pulling comments form other sites?
it can get complicated - we are trying to get comments back from instagram at the moment, and they don't let us yet
it works on most sites, but they can change the terms of service to stop you getting it back
The web is a big mess - it always has been, but ToS makes it a worse mess