David Recordon

David Recordon
Senior Open Programs Manager, Facebook

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David Recordon is the Senior Open Programs Manager at Facebook, where he leads open source and open standards initiatives. He joined Facebook from Six Apart where he focused on platform strategies, and previously worked at VeriSign in the emerging business group. David has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies, such as OpenID and OAuth. He collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the Web. In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award.

Sessions

1:00pm Tuesday, 03/31/2009
Open, Social Web
Development, Workshop
 Location: 2001
David Recordon (Facebook), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), Chris Messina (OpenID Foundation)
You can’t talk about building for the web without contemplating a coherent approach to enabling and supporting social functionality. This developer-oriented workshop will emphasize the use and application of free, open building blocks for enabling social networking features on your site or service, and provide illuminating insights from some of the key figures creating these technologies. Read more.
11:00am Friday, 04/03/2009
Standards and Your Business
Fundamentals
 Location: 2001
Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb), David Rudin (Microsoft Corp.), Eran Hammer-Lahav (Yahoo!), David Recordon (Facebook), Clara Shih (salesforce.com)
Success in standards requires not only great technology, but diplomacy, comprise, and even lawyers. Standards can influence your project’s features and designs. Sometimes they line up with your projects, sometimes lead the way, and other times hold you back. This panel will explore how standards are developed, how they can fit or clash with your project, and how you can get effectively involved. Read more.
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