Author: Johannes Ernst

  • OpenID Connect? Messina vs. Obasanjo

    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…

  • Stupidity, Cleverness and Predictions

    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 …

  • Man or Mouse? Google’s China Move a Major Challenge to Yahoo, Microsoft et al

    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…

  • Smart Meter Security?

    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?

  • Another Decade, Time for One More Blog

    What’s the next decade going to be like in technology? I found myself pondering this a lot recently. It seems we are in for very revolutionary changes … like the becoming irrelevance of the PC. Or the move to NoSQL. Or all web apps being connected to each other, with RSS/Atom and OpenID being the…