Matt Mullenweg questions claims that OpenID is a workable spam blocking tool. Expanding on my comments there, I see at least three ways people are looking at using OpenID: (1) As a way to prove you own the URL associated with your blog comment. This is the original problem that OpenID was designed to address, [...]
We just launched a new PrefPass product that I’m pretty excited about. You can think of it as a universal login widget. It’s some code that you paste onto your registration and login pages, letting users join your app without having to choose a password. Instead, they can use any of a growing list of [...]
I managed to stop by day two of the Internet Identity Workshop for a couple hours, and had some good conversations while seeing important specs come to life right there on the spot. Impressive stuff! I had really wanted to attend the day three session on “The Business of Identity” initiated by Johannes Ernst, but [...]
Kim Cameron‘s Laws of Identity have received a lot of attention, and for good reason; these laws encode properties that are very important to users and identity providers, and previous attempts at identity systems violating these laws have been rejected by these two groups. However, there’s another important group whose needs don’t seem as well [...]
We have one primary goal with PrefPass when it comes to changing the user experience on the web: convenience. This aspect is a simple proposition: instead of a registration form, a link in an email, and then yet another password to remember, you can join a site with one click. But another aspect of PrefPass [...]
PrefPass is now in private beta! It’s been an intense time getting everything ready to go, but it’s now out there (and in my sidebar). In the requisite three words, what is PrefPass all about? Personalization without registration. As I was talking about in the last post, the idea is to keep things simple and [...]
So as mentioned in my last post, I recently stopped by BarCamp SF (which was great!) and talked about “microchunking identity.” I figured it would be a good way to explain part of the motivation behind the startup I’m working on, PrefPass. This was also the first public demo of PrefPass, so it was pretty [...]
Many people have been talking about the idea of “microchunking.” This means taking an object, usually a media file, and reducing it to its smallest usable part. The idea is that instead of fighting against innovation, digital media can embrace new technology and still be profitable if it is microchunked, syndicated, and monetized wherever it [...]