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Unfinished Business Lecture Series - Chris Messina on The Open Web: Identity is the Platform

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 from 6:45 PM to 8:15 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

Unfinished Business Lecture Series - Chris Messina on The...

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ABOUT UNFINISHED BUSINESS

The Unfinished Lecture is a monthly event hosted by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD and sponsored by Torch Partnership. Part of the Unfinished Business initiative, the lectures are intended to generate an open conversation about strategic innovation in the business and design of commercial enterprises and public organizations.

OPEN WEB: Identity is the Platform

Social platforms like Facebook and Twitter's have received a lot press as potential "game changers." They are inching the web away from a document-centric model — where the primary activities are searching and information retrieval from vast databases — to one that is more engaging and people-centric.

The document-centric model of the web has driven massive value to the Googles and Microsofts, and yet they continue to expect more of the same. But the web is becoming social, and the same rules do not apply. On the social web, value is driven to individuals from their extensions into the network —where identity is the platform — and the popularity of technologies like OpenID and Facebook Connect bear this out.

In this talk, I will discuss the trends and technologies driving this shift, and the potential of the people-centric model for companies, products, and individuals.

Video Interview With Chris Messina on OpenID at Next09 (Hamburg) from Plugg Conference on Vimeo.



ABOUT THE SPEAKER

 


Chris Messina co-founded the Flock web browser and led the community marketing of Firefox. He runs Citizen Agency and co-founded San Francisco-based Citizen Space which kicked off the coworking movement. He co-organized the first BarCamp in 2005 and was named one of the Digital Utopians and People Who Populate Web 2.0 by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a board member of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo. He has been quoted in The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, MIT Technology Review and Wired. Chris received the 2008 Google Open Source Award in recognition for his work advancing technology initiatives such as Firefox and microformats.

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OCADU
100 McCaul Street
CENTRAL HALL
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 from 6:45 PM to 8:15 PM (ET)


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At Torch Innovation we think differently about how and what people learn.  We offer a series of lectures, workshop, and community events that focus and provide a different perspective on creativity, design, and innovation and provide attendees with practical skill that they can use in their teams and organizations.