Category: Big Picture
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Kim Cameron: OpenID is the Most Widely Adopted System for Reusable Internet Identity
The list of brand-name OpenID adopters speaks for itself, with — by some counts — now more than 1 billion functional OpenIDs on the open internet, but for the internet identity movement this quote from Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect, is rather significant: In the last year, OpenID has without doubt become the most…
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Too many messaging clients on my desktop
There is: e-mail (Mail.app) VoIP (Skype) RSS (NetNewsWire, and Mail.app) Twitter (Tweetie) sometimes IM (iChat, others) sometimes IRC (Colloquy) That’s in addition to websites that also act as messaging clients, like Facebook, I’m sorry, how many feeds am I supposed to monitor in how many pieces of software? What about somebody develop a real nice…
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OpenID and Government
Today’s news about major identity initiatives in the US Federal Government is indeed great news. But it does make me think. Kick Willemse asked the key question on an OpenID mailing list: How about a dutch (international) OP fullfilling all criteria? What about one in Russia or China? Would the US government accept identities asserted…
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Don Hinchcliffe Thinks The Plumbing Is Called the “Web OS”
Don Hinchcliffe has an interesting graphic in a recent post on ZDNet: Some people have commented that it’s all buzzwords, and of course it is. But there is value in just collecting all the buzzwords that are relevant at the current time, and attempt to integrate them into something we can all get our arms…
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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…