Johannes Ernst on September 24th, 2007

Today France Telecom has announced at Digital Identity World today that all Orange broadband subscribers now can use FT-hosted OpenIDs. This makes FT the first major telco to support OpenID. I’ve known about this project for a while; I had the first discussions about this with them more than two years ago. It’s great that [...]

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Johannes Ernst on September 20th, 2007

Finally, the rather intriguing social graph aggregation project that Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon have been working was announced publicly on Six Apart’s blog today by David. Go ahead and read the long post; also compare the more technical paper they wrote earlier. Let me first say that I have no idea what Six Apart’s [...]

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Johannes Ernst on September 20th, 2007

The room is packed. Many more attendees than expected. And the discussion on the panels is rather good, too. This Health 2.0 conference is the right event at the right time, and the uptake shows it. Obviously, many health technology startups are here, some VCs, but also many of the large health provider and insurer [...]

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Johannes Ernst on September 20th, 2007

She writes: I am producing an (un)conference for women working in technology called She’s Geeky in October…Please pass the word along to women working in tech that you think might enjoy attending the event. She’s Geeky www.shesgeeky.org A Women’s Tech (un)conference October 22-23 in Mountain View, CA. This event is designed to bring together women [...]

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Johannes Ernst on September 5th, 2007

Rapleaf seems to have inadvertently stepped into a hornet’s nest of privacy issues that first came to light when some journalists dug a bit deeper in how the Rapleaf business is supposed to work.

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