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OAuth, BuddyPress, and Privacy
When I first started kicking around the idea of coding a privacy component for BuddyPress, several people suggested looking into using the OAuth protocol to accomplish the task. Being semi-omniscient,...
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Do You Support BuddyPress Privacy?
In a recent post, I asked for ideas on how WordPress ecosytem developers can earn a living doing what they love to do—coding great-quality plugins for WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress. This post is...
View ArticlePrivacy in the Facebook Era
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that privacy is no longer a social norm. Is that an actual fact or a engineered fact? Here’s why I ask. Over the past several years, whenever Facebook...
View ArticleBuddyPress Privacy: Moving Toward a Privacy API
BuddyPress development is moving toward a modular, team-focused approach. In my mind, this is the biggest news that came out of the weekly BuddyPress developers’ chat (you can read a succinct summary...
View ArticleRegaining Control of Privacy and Identity: It’s up to Each Individual
This is a follow-up post to my article, Privacy in the Facebook Era. It was originally a reply to a comment by Chris Messina in that post. As this topic continues to be relevant, I’ve decided to...
View ArticleBuddyPress Beginning to Mature At the Right Time
I’ve written about social-networking fatigue in the past, and still believe that–in the long term–distributed Social Web platforms will win out over the traditional, Web2.0-styled, closed-data-silo...
View ArticleBuddyPress Privacy Component About to Launch
Here’s a brief update on my efforts to provide a suite of privacy filtering services to BuddyPress’ core components. With the release of BP v1.2.6, the last of the essential ingredients are now in...
View ArticleRelease of BuddyPress Privacy Component Pushed Back One Week
Yes, I know. What??? How could you??!! And just on the greatly-anticipated eve of BP Privacy’s release? Is this a warped event caused by a rip in the space-time continuum or possibly even triggered by...
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Flowing Your Identity Through the Social Web
Some social networking platforms are beginning to buy into data portability. Whereas any step toward opening up the closed data-silo islands is a positive step, the real question is what does data...
View ArticleBP Privacy: An Update
This is an update on BP Privacy. I felt that it was important to communicate its current status. I also think that it is necessary to address a few who are claiming that BP Privacy is very late, for...
View ArticleBP Privacy: History and Lessons Learned from Developing a Major BuddyPress...
Coding great-quality, open source software, while often rewarding, can also be a thankless, difficult task. As many have been asking for an update on BP Privacy–also known as the BuddyPress Privacy...
View ArticleBP Privacy v1.0-RC1 is now available!
Please read Important Notice section below. After more than 1500 hours of work, 7300 code and comment lines, and creation of a 38-page manual, BP Privacy release candidate one is now available for...
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Who Should Own the Internet?
This image is a tracing of all the Internet traffic circa late 2006. It is licensed under a Creative Commons License (by-nc-sa/1.0) and created by http://opte.org/The genesis for this article came from...
View ArticleIs Surrogate Blogging via Google Plus a Good Idea?
I recently came across this discussion on Google Plus (G+) about Kevin Rose’s decision to stop using his personal blog in preference to G+. He is now redirecting all visitors to his blog to his G+...
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