Hueniverse

It's People Like Me What Cause Unrest

Hueniverse celebrated its first birthday last week and its the perfect time to launch a new blog. Why another? Because readers of this blog are probably not all that interested in my personal life, my political views, and my technology rants. I personally dislike when people use their blogs for both business and pleasure and decided to create two separate brands for myself. I also use Hueniverse closely with my day job at Yahoo! which requires that opinions posted here are professionally written and while not necessarily those of my employer, are at least not a public relations liability.

The new blog is called Half a Bee, named after the Monty Python song Eric the Half a Bee. Why? Because the spirit of the sketch and silliness of the subject matter fits perfectly with the kind of writings I plan to do there. In addition, the song used to appear in conjunction with another sketch in which the lead character says “Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.” That is what Half a Bee is all about! Maybe I’ll see you on the other side.

I CAN HAD OPEN: OAuth First Summit a Hit!

The first OAuth Summit hosted by Yahoo! last week was a huge success. Fifty (!) OAuth community members attended representing 20 companies, large and small, as well as a couple dedicated individuals. The list of companies represented at the summit is extremely gratifying to see considering the fact that OAuth started and still is a community-driven effort: Agree2, AOL, BroadOn, Bubble Labs, Eye-Fi, Facebook, Garmin, Google, LinkedIn, Ma.gnolia, Microsoft, MySpace, Plaxo, Pownce, SafeMashups, Salesforce, Songbird, Veodia, Vidoop,  and Yahoo!.

Beginner’s Guide to Discovery – Part II: People vs. Machines

Discovery is a machine-oriented process. While people can access the data being discovered, the focus is on making it easy for machines to access and extract. But when the data is intended for both people and machines developers have to choose between providing it once or offering it in two separate containers.

Beginner’s Guide to Discovery – Part I: Magic

Discovery, simply put, is the process in which machines learn about how to interact with other machines. When discussing discovery, most people immediately think of a world in which servers find new unknown services and they all just connect and work – like magic. This might be where we are trying to go but it is not what the discussion around discovery is about. Discovery does not answer the request 'teach me how to talk to you' but instead 'which of the languages I know do you understand?'.