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Influence

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 2, 2023 Posted in Technology 2 Comments Tagged with fediverse, OpenUKHonours23

What’s an influencer, anyway? This is the question that rings out in my mind as I attempt to internalize the fact that I have been named one of the Top 100 UK Open Source Influencers for 2022 as part of their 2023 …

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Twitter is Dead

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 16, 2022 Posted in Web No Comments Tagged with fediverse

Today, as reported in the Guardian and elsewhere, Twitter suspended accounts of several journalists who had reported on Elon Musk and have also suspended accounts related to Mastodon as well as banning or “shadow-banning” people who talk about or link …

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Let’s Talk About the C Word

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 10, 2022 Posted in Web 2 Comments

Consensus. It shouldn’t be a dirty word, but in some circles it seems to have become one. I was on an industry working group call the other week where someone presented a series of governance models and “consensus” was presented …

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Federated!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 8, 2022 Posted in Misc 8 Comments Tagged with fediverse

This blog is now a part of the #fediverse. I was inspired by the recent migration user growth on Mastodon and other federated social web sites to get the ActivityPub WordPress plugin installed here and start federating out any posts …

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All Change, Still Purple.

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 31, 2022 Posted in Misc 1 Comment Tagged with career, jobs, samsung, security, snyk, Web

Apparently there’s been some confusion about my choice of hair color. Some people seem to have been under the impression that I chose purple to match the color scheme of Samsung Internet. So I want to set the record straight. …

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Why Get Involved in Web Standards?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 15, 2020 Posted in Misc No Comments

Post originally appeared on dev.to. The web is going through an unprecedented period of change and evolution. New features, new technologies and new ideas are coming to the web. Luckily, it’s a platform that, since its invention in 1992 by …

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Diary of an Engine Diversity Absolutist

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 26, 2020 Posted in Web 6 Comments

Browsers play a pivotal role in the web, but does the web need multiple browsers? I think most web professionals would say yes, but how about browser engines, the underlying software platforms that browsers are built on? Does the web …

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We Need a More Ethical Web

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in Misc No Comments

This is a repost of something I originally posted to the Samsung Internet blog on Medium. This week, we have been celebrating the 30th anniversaryof the invention of the web. However, the celebration is tinged with anxiety about the current state of the …

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Ups & Downs of the web 2018

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 21, 2018 Posted in Misc No Comments

The following is an excerpt from a post from all the members of the Samsung Internet Developer Advocacy group on web ups and downs foe 2018. I encourage you to go read that post and hear what others in my …

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How To Put Facebook in a Box

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 1, 2018 Posted in Technology No Comments

If you’re like me and you hate everything Facebook has become and everything they do as a company but you keep using it because nice people you really want to stay in touch with are on it, then here are …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

For more info on my professional life, see my Linkedin profile.

I am tooting at Mastodon.social and also at dsoc.io.

If you're curious where the nickname Torgo came from, I appropriated it from a character in the the movie Manos: the Hands of Fate via Mystery Science Theater 3000.

If you are so inclined, you may find my public key on Keybase.io.

Unless otherwise noted, this blog consists of my own personal views and is not endorsed by my employer or any other party or nation state.

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