Summary: Episode 183 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have 3/4 of the panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #183: Social Login (MP3, 35:48, 34.4MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as a new paid social network, user testing and several typography related topics! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: WebPlatform.org — Your Web, documented Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/183. Host Spotlights Patrick: Official Website – The Art of Explanation, a book by Lee LeFever Louis: Zeus – a Ruby gem for preloading Kevin: How to destroy angels_ Keep it together_ [official] Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint podcast. We’re back with our every other weekly roundup of the latest news and events in the world of web design and development. I’m joined on the panel this week by Patrick O’Keefe and Kevin Dees. Stephan is away this week. Hi guys. Kevin: Hello. Patrick: Click and drag continues. Kevin: Yes. Louis: Yeah, clicking and dragging still. Kevin: Let’s just pull this joke out of the way longer than it needs to be. Patrick: Stretch it. Kevin: Stretch it. Louis: All right, so, Patrick, you were saying you were asking around on Twitter for what stories we should cover and you came up with a lot of people who replied with the same story that I had identified as being something I wanted to talk about on the show. So why don’t we dive right into that? Patrick: Yeah. I asked on Twitter and Dale McGlathery, Joe Anzelone, and Andy Con all responded with the same story. When I saw it I thought very strongly that at least one of you would have it, if not both of you, just because it seems like it’s being talked about like crazy today. So, let’s talk about it ourselves. It’s webplatform.org. It bills itself as an open community of developers building resources for a better web regardless of brand, browser, or platform. In the launch blog post which was made today they said that they aim to have accurate, up to date, comprehensive references and tutorials for every part of client side development and design with quirks and bugs revealed and explained. Now, this isn’t just another online community. This is being backed by Microsoft, Opera, Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Nokia, Adobe, HP, and the W3C. They said they wanted to put out this alpha site, which is what they’re calling it, in the earliest possible point in the spirit of release early, release often. So they want to improve it in public with the web community’s help. Now, the organizations I mentioned are called stewards. They’re stewards for the project and it says they’ve enabled the W3C to convene the community and grow the site. Those organizations have put a lot into it and they’re basically pledging to put people, content, money, and effort into this site. But this blog post stressed they’re doing so as peers with the same privileges available to anyone else who builds up trust and becomes a site admin. Right now, webplatform.org is mostly a wiki. It also has a forum, a chat room, a blog, but their focus is really on the wiki and on growing it [...]
