Upon2020 (archive)
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No Bloodshed
"For we may distinguish two main types of government. The first type consists of governments of which we can get rid without bloodshed—for example, by way of general elections; that is to say, the social institutions provide means by which the rulers may be dismissed by the ruled, and the social traditions ensure that these…
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About Myself
Note: Very much out of date. Check my home page at j12t.org instead. Professional I’m the founder and CEO of NetMesh Inc., a Silicon-Valley-based startup company that has been developing a novel type of software platform called InfoGrid. In the process, I came up with the idea of using URLs to identify people, originally calling…
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OpenID Could Be The New Visa
Imagine visiting a store, showing a plastic card with a few numbers on it to the store employee, and leaving 10 minutes later with a thousand dollars worth of goods. Best of all, you and the store can be fairly certain that neither of you were cheated. Prior to the invention of the credit card,…
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Follow-up to “What is Wrong With This OpenID Picture?”
In a recent post I argued that OpenID identifiers such as www.davidrecordon.com, =eek and mylid.net/jernst are much more natural than those generated by Yahoo! or Google that might look like this: me.yahoo.com/a/vIxu8Lll29jYXQEYBNg86tIZgY7Bs8c7. Eric Sachs, the product manager in charge at Google, gave me a hard time over it; actually, he didn’t because he’s way too…
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What is Wrong With This OpenID Picture?
Screen shot from the nominations page for the current OpenID Foundation board elections. I’ve always thought that OpenID identifiers need to be human readable because they are likely to be printed in places like this one. Can you spot the identifier that’s just not as helpful as the others? ;-) I have erased some information…