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Chris Messina is an Open Source Advocate, known for his roles in creating BarCamp, Spread Firefox and the Coworking movements. Chris is based in San Francisco, California.

  • chrismessina: Tower of Awesomeness at Cambridge Brewing Co w/ locals @jonpierce @kabirh @alexpatriquin: http://yfrog.com/git0sjj /by @brynn #fooeast

    12:18:03 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: 30% off on ScreenFlow today -- great screen recording software: http://tr.im/mupromo #deal #macosx

    11:10:07 pm on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Just discovered a neat Easter egg in the new version of Tweetie for iPhone 2.1.2: http://post.ly/eNKf

    02:57:19 pm on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @douglasp known issue. Will try to remedy. :(

    02:18:13 am on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: RT @lizgannes: The Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags http://bit.ly/cS8ctr

    02:17:15 am on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: OH: "I'm a bit moist." Unrelated: @tomcoates. #fooeast

    11:37:10 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: RT @brynn: it's national Free Comic Book Day tomorrow. http://bit.ly/ibe1V We just feel you should know. /via @boltpeters

    10:42:23 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Ouch, @arstechnica forums hacked, private emails harvested for phishing scheme: http://bit.ly/dv20Lr

    08:15:21 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @lizgannes there's a bit of a history here: http://twitter.pbworks.com/Hashtags and on my blog: http://tr.im/fj_hashtags

    07:12:56 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Want to see the first hashtag evar (from August 23, 2007)? Here it is: http://flic.kr/p/2Tftp7 /ht @polvi

    05:52:35 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: On a @virginamerica flight to BOS with @alexbarnett @brynn @tomcoates for FOO East. #compulsoryMileHighTweet

    05:50:33 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: RT @KateAtState: Interested in learning what you can do to help w/ the #oilspill? Join the @crisiscamp call at Noon EDT http://bit.ly/awkYkX

    02:05:35 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: RT @billmaher: Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty

    02:04:43 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @msng_en Yes, that's me.

    04:27:33 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: From Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO: "Moving Forward" http://bit.ly/9P77IL /via @mesh tip @techmeme

    01:54:06 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: I agree with @chrissaad: Open is not enough. Interoperability is what's needed: http://bit.ly/cpG0pn /via @rww tip @techmeme

    01:50:24 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @taylorbuley not in the least. XAuth is like your system registry — it tells sites which identity/service providers that you use.

    01:48:34 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: The full source of XAuth has been released with documentation by @meebojian! http://github.com/xauth/xauth #html5

    01:20:13 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @lqd once you have identity, payment instruments become just another service that the user can authorize.

    12:51:21 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Created a dedicated page for my Social Agent mocks that I did with @ragavan @thunder & @michaelrhanson: http://factoryjoe.com/social-agent/

    12:34:13 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Don't miss Mozilla Labs Night tonight in Mountain View! Account Manager, Contacts in the Browser, XAuth! http://bit.ly/bbaNch

    12:33:13 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @superfeedr I think PuSH absolutely needs to be able to be used for partial profile updates (especially with JSON and private data)!

    10:46:32 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: For @blaine, WebFinger is the core of distribute social networks: http://bit.ly/aJFceO Two missing pieces: the UX and syncing deleted data.

    10:45:18 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Twitter Usage In America 2010 - User Statistics And Behaviors - Edison Research: http://bit.ly/amt8hU /via @brynn

    10:16:06 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: The diaspora* project has the right intention, but should really be building what already exists... http://joindiaspora.com #m2c

    10:00:55 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Using CSS3, @Panic creates an amazing email newsletter: http://bit.ly/bzlZLf /via @boltron

    09:32:02 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: In light of Steve Jobs' letter about Flash, I'm starting to think maybe I was right after all: http://bit.ly/XNrat

    07:28:05 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Fascinating and encouraging thoughts on Flash from Steve Jobs. Viva the open web! http://instapaper.com/zktpasy5 #html5 #webkit

    05:16:19 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @PaulLomax heh, honored, but one step at a time. ;)

    05:04:54 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @PaulLomax hmm, no. @Jyri coined the phrase "social objects". Zuck gets credit for "social graph" (simply by popularizing it).

    03:57:52 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Stoked that Microsoft's Messenger Connect supports OAuth WRAP, ActivityStrea.ms, PortableContacts! http://bit.ly/cyYgUc /cc @anguslogan

    03:56:59 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Ok, I do like the new Open Graph Protocol logo: http://opengraphprotocol.org

    12:27:57 am on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: RT @fling: Breaking: Hewlett Packard is buying Palm for $1.2 billion. http://bit.ly/dq3Xht (via @nickbilton)

    09:14:20 pm on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: The Data Driven Life: "People have such a very poor sense of time." http://nyti.ms/cREglz /via @brynn @boltron

    08:27:29 pm on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: FYI, I'll be speaking at @northernvoice in Vancouver May 7-8! http://bit.ly/aau6JS

    05:12:52 am on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Attention grabbing heading: "Monogamy’s Rashida Jones and Chris Messina on Why Geriatric Public Sex Is Really Hot" http://j.mp/czaQq5 #omg

    03:46:56 am on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Super stoked that @panic released Transmit 4 today! (I was a beta tester, and it's hot!): http://panic.com/transmit/ #macosx

    01:07:21 am on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: "To protect your privacy, we will need your name, phone number, SSN, filing number, and address." -from the IRS helpline. Uh huh.

    12:38:26 am on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: EscapeTheLab.com remote research UX workshop is sold out BUT tweet #etlab to enter to win the LAST ticket! /via @brynn @boltron

    12:32:49 am on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @KuraFire managing identity and accounts needs to be easier for sure. Passwords are user hostile, especially when every site requires one!

    12:30:25 am on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Account Manager coming to Firefox! http://mzl.la/cJBqrG /by @thunder tip @techmeme #idib

    11:11:42 pm on April 27, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Today's not a good technology day. http://flic.kr/p/7WNiPv #toomanyfriends

    09:59:43 pm on April 27, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: @alipasha worried? That's not quite how I feel. Impressed, yes. Aware that we need better open, social solutions? Yes.

    09:43:19 pm on April 27, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: We've updated @ericschmidt's Net Neutrality letter with a born-on date. Phew. http://bit.ly/9Mr8mB #google

    09:38:05 pm on April 27, 2010 |

     

  • chrismessina: Very impressed by the new, more social @Spotify: http://bit.ly/bslC5X #wow #facebook

    09:24:29 pm on April 27, 2010 |

     
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