Re: Introduction: Henry Story (bblfish.net)

Dave Levin, Social Computing Group at HP Labs. I work on privacy, security, and incentives in decentralized systems. I am particularly interested in designing and building systems that reduce trust requirements in the Internet. Case in point, I am interested to see if we will be able to provide incentive to the big osn players to share the user data they collect with their competitors.


On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:54 AM, "Henry Story" <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
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>   I am Henry Story, and have been working on the Distributed Social Web going for the past 4 years. I wrote a Linked Data Address Book client in 2008 [1], which allowed one to browse the global foaf network. But it was criticised for lacking privacy, which is what lead me by accident  to the discovery of WebID (a.k.a foaf+ssl). After travelling around Europe to make sure that this was really viable, the W3C helped us found the WebID Incubator Group [2] which I am chairing (you are all welcome to join, and we are especially keen on feedback from this group).
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>   In the late 90ies I worked at AltaVista on the BabelFish machine translation engine. At Sun Microsystems I then contributed to the Atom XML spec, and wrote a blogging client. I am very keen on well architected RESTful web solutions, which is why I am very keen on the semantic linked data web.
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>   Currently I am also contributing to the Apache Incubator project Clerezza.org, which is a 100% pure Java, 50% Scala, 100% pure RDF CMS - ideal for building Social Web demos I believe. I am just working on getting building the pieces to get SWAT0 working there.
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>  For more on WebID including a detailed talk on the Philosophy of the Social Web, see the videos
> on my home page: http://bblfish.net/
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>  Henry Story
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> [1] http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/building_secure_and_distributed_social
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/charter
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