Author Archives: Will Norris

Hi, I’m Will Norris. I'm an engineer working on the Google+ platform by day, and pushing to further the indie web by night. I've been active in numerous projects and efforts such as [Shibboleth][], [OpenID][], [OAuth][], XRD, and [Activity Streams][]. I'm passionate about the work that I do, but I believe that there is more to life than all of this. ([read more][]) [Shibboleth]: http://shibboleth.net/ [OpenID]: http://openid.net/ [OAuth]: http://oauth.net/ [Activity Streams]: http://activitystrea.ms/ [read more]: /about

Outsourcing comments to Google+

A few weeks ago I quietly (or not so quietly, as it were) disabled comments on my blog. It was something I’d been considering for a while, and I finally resolved to do it after talking with Shane Becker at IndieWebCamp back in June. Shane takes the stance that his site should be about him […]

Launching the Google+ Platform

A couple of months ago, I mentioned how excited I was to reveal to family and friends what I’ve been working on at Google for the last year or so, Google+. Well, that was only partly true. What I’ve really been working on is the Google+ Platform, which we are finally starting to roll out […]

first post using snowflake, my new WordPress plugin for syndicating personal published content #indieweb