American Yak

Perty cool.  This weekend I was able to go and meet some of the founders of the gadgetry running this here blog.

I wouldn’t say I’m particularly tied to WordPress as a system, however, I’ve taken a lot of interest in BuddyPress lately, what with a pet project, Arx Poetica, which I’ve built on top of BuddyPress. There was a lot of buzz about BuddyPress at WordCamp NYC this year; it kind of seemed to be the hot topic.  What’s fun is I was able to meet the main developers behind it, Andy Peatling and John James Jacoby, and discuss some of the pros and cons of another strong area interest of mine, distributed social networks.  The so-called “social stack” is on the roadmap for BuddyPress, down the path a few iterations.  A developer in Poland, Wacław, and I have taken up a bit of the mantle on this front, aided by the help of former OpenID runners like Will Norris and Chris Messina.  Visit our endeavors here: http://disodev.org/ There isn’t much to show for it on the actual site, but we’ve done some work already on returning OpenID results using XRDS Simple.