Jul
27

OpenID Bounty Program: 10 times 5000 Dollars for Open-Source Developers!

Johannes Ernst on July 27th, 2006

One good way of telling whether anybody means it is to see whether they are willing to spend money on it. Well, we are. A group of companies, including VeriSign, JanRain, Cordance, ooTao, Opinity (added, my apologies in missing you guys earlier), Four Kitchen Studios, Zooomr, claimID, Sxip, Six Apart, and us at NetMesh have [...]

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Jul
24

Great Event at the SD Forum Collaboration SIG This Evening

Johannes Ernst on July 24th, 2006

Either the audiences are getting better, or I’m getting better at explaining it (or maybe we’re all learning in parallel), but this evening’s discussion on "Why User-Centric Digital Identity Matters" at the SD Forum’s Collaboration SIG was great. Thanks, everybody, who participated and had lots of questions; I like those events particularly. Nothing worse than [...]

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Jul
24

Hot hot hot

Johannes Ernst on July 24th, 2006

July in Northern California is always hot, but this year it must be worse. Last nightToday, our pool has 85 86 degrees F (that’s almost 30C). What good is a pool if it doesn’t cool you down? Our outside thermometer shows a recorded maximum of 120.7F 120.9F. I guess that the Sun must have been [...]

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Jul
20

Why, Really, Do We Need Multiple Identity URLs?

Johannes Ernst on July 20th, 2006

I was asked that question today, and gave the standard answer along the lines of "we don’t want everybody to correlate all information about us all across the web, e.g. the employer with the direct marketers with the healthcare provider". I got an unusual response, however, which was: Couldn’t this be solved as well with [...]

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