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, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recently I keep seeing variations of the same theme pop up around the web: that in a complicated world, we have to try to simplify things by using easily stated and compared measures; but that these same measures tend to distort things, since they sometimes become more important than the reality they purport to […]
Ben Hyde makes the great point that systems are often designed with an implicit assumption of uniformity in traffic loads, when in fact these loads usually follow a power law. Ben focuses mostly on network design, but this point is just as valid for application design.
It’s understandable that this happens: you sit down to […]
MashupCamp looks to be a great event, although with 300 attendees, a museum host, and sponsorship by Sun, Microsoft, Yahoo, and eBay, it probably won’t be the same kind of sweaty, seat-of-the-pants affair that other “camps” have been.
In the meantime, I don’t know how I missed it up until now but John Musser’s ProgrammableWeb […]
In a previous post I tried to describe an economic shift that I think is helping to support a new environment less tolerant of the monopoly power inherent in private enterprise platform determination:
The liquidity in the maturing online advertising industry, which allows new applications to monetize utility to users quickly and directly.
In other words, […]
In my last post, I talked about how as a technology platform, Web 2.0 isn’t that much different than Web 1.0; really, going from 1.0 to 2.0 is more of a marketing indicator that significant new value is being created on top of this platform.
But there are some other aspects to what people mean by […]