Upon2020 (archive)
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Doing a Google Image Search on Myself — Oh No
This is just too funny. It’s mostly James McGovern‘s fault I think … look at the images from duckdown.blogspot.com below.) In-lined for your amusement: One could think I have rather refined political opinions, but I usually don’t blog about those…
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Seems the Liberty Commons Merger Failed?
And the accusations are flying. Kaliya today announced that the representatives of the Identity Commons in the Liberty Alliance-initiated talks about a new, joint identity organization are withdrawing. She said: We (Mary, Kaliya, Drummond) do not believe the proposed organization accomplishes the goals Identity Commons was formed to achieve. We do not see how we…
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Japan’s Largest Social Network Adopts OpenID (via Nat)
Nat Sakimura, tireless OpenID promoter in Japan and initiator of the OpenID Foundation’s Japan chapter, writes: The largest Japanese SNS, Mixi, started to offer OpenID as of today. This great news comes on the heels of the MySpace OpenID announcement. Other social networks can’t be far behind? He quotes Mixi’s CEO who summarized OpenID advantages…
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On OpenID’s Relying Party Adoption “Problem”
Just about everybody seem to be complaining that there aren’t enough sites where one use those hundreds of millions of OpenIDs. (Known as "relying parties" in the jargon.) And there is no denying, it’s a lot easier these days to get an OpenID than to use it. There are conflicting views on how many OpenID…
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OpenID Celebration and Naysayers’ Week
If you read some blog posts this past week — in which MySpace adopted OpenID, "bringing the total number of enabled accounts to half a billion" (Techcrunch), Orange’s portal in France became one of the largest acceptors of OpenIDs ever, and Facebook fully validated the OpenID proposition — one could get the impression that all…