Another indication that Yadis/LID/OpenID is taking off: today, rss-extensions.org, one of the wikis that we run at NetMesh, was defaced with spam by a user who authenticated himself through OpenID. For eternity, let it be know that it was http://oriflame1.livejournal.com/; his "contribution" involved the usual assortment of drugs (mostly), sex and ringtones. I think we’ve [...]
Openness can have unexpected results. In case of Yadis, we were hoping that its openness would attract techies to innovate around simple, light-weight, URL-based identity. (And we have.) But here is one innovation we didn’t expect at all: a Yadis Song that somebody wrote up on the Yadis Wiki. But the openness does not end [...]


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