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The Protocol Labs Directory helps network members orient themselves within the network by making it easy to learn about other teams and members, including their roles, capabilities, and experiences.

Long Now Lab 001: Protocols for the Long Now

Lab 001.1 is part of the [Protocols for the Long Now](https://longnow.org/labs/001) lab series. Civilizations run on protocols — shared norms for how we keep time, store knowledge, and make decisions together.

Inventing New Nature

Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission

Introducing the Protocol Institute

Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization

Search results | Cambridge Network

TTP exists to innovate. We create, test and develop new technologies and products, that change industries for the better. We challenge and are challenged. Every day. We're the scientists, engineers and designers re-inventing the way millions of people live and work.

Protobase

Managed AT Protocol PDS infrastructure for your brand. Give your users a home on the Atmosphere — we handle the heavy lifting.

Protobase

Managed AT Protocol PDS infrastructure for your brand. Give your users a home on the Atmosphere — we handle the heavy lifting.

Why a New Protocol? The History and Future of AT Protocol - AT Protocol

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Head of Protocol Daniel Holmgren join for a wide-ranging conversation about what atproto is, why it exists, how it got built, and where it's going next. From a Twitter consultancy to an IETF working group, this is where to get started.

Dangerous Protocols - Summer of Protocols

Protocols are frequently touted as the liberating alternative to walled technological gardens, but the historical purpose of protocols has always been to simplify decision-making and reduce human agency. How do we reconcile these two narratives? I explore the dangerous side of protocols, and how their ability to drive coordination means they also have

AT Protocol builder manifesto - WIP, comments wanted!

working title: "Why AT Protocol Will Win: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere"

A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab

Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

Mike Masnick on protocols for publishers

An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.

Bryan Newbold: Protocol engineering

A protocol engineer at the social-media platform Bluesky describes building an open protocol around a fast-growing social media platform.

I am very excited about AT Protocol

AT Protocol (atproto) is the right mix of useful, practical, personal, and fun. I think it could save the internet.