BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. My first exposure to the concept of a ‘federated identity’, or a digital identity or ID if you will, was when I had to obtain one of the first Microsoft Passport identities in order to access the material I needed to finish my book, Developing ASP Components. I was pleased […]
Like others interested in digital IDs, I’ve been looking at LID and hope to install it this weekend, maybe tonight. I’m interested in any system that’s decentralized, as LID appears to be. However, I want to take a closer look before I make any assumptions of the mechanics of the approach. More later, after I have a […]
Page archived, with comments, at Wayback Machine Marc Canter called me a couple of months ago about a new concept he was working that would help webloggers make money. The concept became reality today, as several people started making 800.00US a month to promote a new CMS called Marqui. When Marc and I talked, I was ambivalent […]
Liz Lawley was recently the recipient of a comment spamming google bombing attack. What happened is that someone placed comments in several weblogs, signed “Whiny Communist Bitch” and then included a link to Liz’s site. There are two reasons for this: first, to associate those words with Liz’s site, hence the Google bombing; secondly, as people moved […]
I remember once being critical of TypeKey because (as I said at the time) centralized services don’t scale. Those who didn’t agree pointed out the excellence of both Google and Technorati to demonstrate how well centralization works. This week, as I noticed comment spam in a TypeKey controlled blog, I thought back on that argument […]