Author: Johannes Ernst

  • RSS Has Just Become Plumbing, It’s Not Dead

    Some arguments in the blogosphere whether “RSS is Dead” or not. Fred Wilson, as usual, makes the correct observation that: But RSS is way more than the readers it spawned. It is a fundamental part of the Internet architecture and is used for all sorts of things. It’s the subscribe system of the internet and…

  • OpenID Built In Google Chrome OS?

    ReadWriteWeb speculates that “Google Chrome OS [will] Feature Single Sign-On for Chrome Browser”. They cite some evidence in the source code. Some excerpts of the post: In the code, a line references something being called the “Chrome OS login manager.” Essentially, this login manager will function as a single sign-on (SSO) cookie which will simultaneously…

  • If the Open Stack Is Mere Plumbing: The Plumbing Of What?

    People don’t buy plumbing, they buy a nice house that happens to include plumbing (otherwise it wouldn’t be a nice house). So if OpenID and all the other members of the “Open Stack” are mere plumbing, as I have come to believe, they are the plumbing of what? What is the equivalent of the house…

  • Internet Identity Workshop November 3-5, 2009

    This time, they moved the second IIW of the year forward to November. As usually, it will probably be worth it. I’m registered. Time: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 9:00 AM – Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 5:00 PM Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA

  • The Open Stack or Mere Plumbing?

    So what exactly are we all building here? OpenID? OpenID plus OAuth plus Yadis/XRD(S) plus Portable Contacts plus OpenSocial plus activity streams? That’s a handful, so some have been calling it the “Open Stack“. Is that what we are building? But what about RSS (and syndication in general), iCal feeds, widgets, mash-ups and so forth?…