Introduction: Henry Story (bblfish.net)

Hi Everyone,
  
   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).

   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.

   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.

  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/


  Henry Story

[1] http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/building_secure_and_distributed_social
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/charter

Received on Tuesday, 8 March 2011 18:52:39 UTC