Upon2020 (archive)
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Very Cool Server-less OPML Rendering!
I suspected that one could write a full OPML editor completely without server-side code, using some XSLT and JavaScript trickery. The Hyperscope project has now done exactly that. It’s very cool. Try it out here. They have applied it to something rather interesting in itself: a modern version of Doug Engelbart’s famous Augment system, which…
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Speaking at Stanford this Thursday
On Thursday 21st (this week), I’ll be speaking on "The Emerging Open-Source Identity System" at Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 460, Room 126. It starts at 7pm, but networking opens at 6pm. Other speakers will include: Lauren Gelman of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, on Net Neutrality Eugene Kim of Blue…
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PC Forum is no more
Just came across this: Just to make it official: PC Forum 2006 was our last one. It had a great run, from 1977 to 2006, and we decided to end it before anyone asked us to. Founded by Ben Rosen back in the 70s, with early speakers including initial Apple CEOs Mike Markkula, Steve Jobs…
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On XDI
Drummond Reed was nice enough to give me a one-on-one tutorial on XDI (the XRI Data Interchange activity at OASIS) during Digital Identity World this week. If you have seen any fragments of the documents and identifiers that XDI uses, I think it’s a safe bet that you’ve probably understood nothing, and moved on. (Certainly,…
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News.com writes about OSIS
In an article titled Is Open Source Getting to Microsoft?, CNET news.com writes about Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, and has a link to the OSIS Wiki. Some of the OSIS Steering Committee members are quoted as well.