David Recordon
Encyclopedia
David Recordon aka daveman692, is an open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Recordon was formerly employed as an Open Platforms Tech Lead at blogging company Six Apart
. Currently he is working with Facebook
as a Senior Open Programs Manager.
Recordon is best known for his involvement in development and popularization of OpenID
. Recordon is an active proponent of OAuth
and microformats
.
In 2007, Recordon became the youngest recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award
.
Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal. Six Apart is headquartered in Tokyo and is planning to open a new, U.S.-based office in New York...
. Currently he is working with Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
as a Senior Open Programs Manager.
Recordon is best known for his involvement in development and popularization of OpenID
OpenID
OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner, eliminating the need for services to provide their own ad hoc systems and allowing users to consolidate their digital identities...
. Recordon is an active proponent of OAuth
OAuth
OAuth is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically username and password.OAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of credentials to their data hosted by a...
and microformats
Microformats
A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup which seeks to re-use existing HTML/XHTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support HTML, such as RSS...
.
In 2007, Recordon became the youngest recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award
Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award
The Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award is presented to individuals for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source.-External links:* *...
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