The Once and Future IndieWeb

1. Independents Day
2. Rise of the Silos
3. Return of the Indie Web

INDEPENDENTS DAY is a worldwide project celebrating independent content and design on the web.

• Friendster
• Myspace
• Orkut
• Facebook

• Easy signup
• Your friends and their friends
• Integrated reading and posting

• Distracted by format wars, blog UX stopped evolving
• People went to social networks to connect … to people!
• Silo UX evolved: Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook
• Likes, activities made us dopamine dependent...

• tl;dr: too much talking, not enough building
• Architecture Astronauts
• More talkers than doers
• Complacent complexity: Atom, Activity Streams, Salmon, OAuth...
• = too hard, fragile, and too few implementations

2011: IndieWebCamp founded

2011: IndieWebCamp.com

• Discussion: #indiewebcamp Freenode IRC
• Documentation: Indiewebcamp.com wiki
• All contributions: public domain / CC0
• In-person BarCamp/DevCamp!

IndieWebCamp 2011, Portland Oregon

IndieWebCamp 2011, Portland Oregon

• Show, don't tell
• Creators only
• Must have own domain name to attend
• Use your site as OpenID to sign-in to wiki
• RSVP on the wiki
• Creators may bring an Apprentice

• OpenID -> RelMeAuth -> IndieAuth
  • rel=me on your existing elsewhere links
• microformats/microdata/RDFa -> microformats2
  • less markup, simpler generic syntax
• pingback -> webmention
  • Drop XMLRPC. "Just" use HTTP.
• Easier for publishers and consumers!
• Most importantly: user experience first

• Join IRC and ask for help: #indiewebcamp on Freenode
  • or use the web UI: indiewebcamp.com/IRC
• Read (and edit!) the wiki: indiewebcamp.com
• Build indieweb features into your site
• Follow @indiewebcamp on Twitter
• Attend an IndieWebCamp in person!

Tantek Çelik • tantek.com • @t
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