Johannes Ernst on January 18th, 2010

Chris Messina thinks the OpenID brand should come to mean a package of a number of related “Open Stack” technologies, called OpenID Connect, and start to compete with Facebook Connect. Dare Obasanjo disagrees: he thinks we only need an OpenID Connect if there were multiple incompatible implementations of Facebook Connect-like products from multiple players, to [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 16th, 2010

According to the 10-yr anniversary edition of the Cluetrain Manifesto: There’s a lesson in there: it’s easier to predict stupidity than cleverness. Sort of makes you think when trying to write this blog …

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It is fashionable for corporations to declare their firm intentions to make the world a better place. If only one’s competitors wouldn’t embark on bad practices, then one would not have to copy them, or so the disclaimer usually goes. Google’s threatened move out of China disrupts this excuse. You can bet that there are [...]

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jernst on January 13th, 2010

So how are we going to interact with all of those screens? Let’s first list what won’t work: keyboards: we’re not about to have a keyboard underneath each picture frame in our houses. mice: same as for keyboards. There also won’t be a table surface in front of each screen. tiny little buttons on the [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 12th, 2010

Seems PG&E is installing smart meters for electricity and gas in our neighborhood. They use some kind of mesh networking. Anybody know how they might be secured?

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