Monthly Archives: September 2007

Flywheels and spinning plates

Photo by Mike Sweeney and shared under Creative Commons license.
Interesting conversation tonight with Greg Wolff and his wife about capturing social capital as a dynamic kind of “currency”.
I didn’t follow the discussion in its entirely, but going off on my own tangent, I did come up with a rather interesting framing of the idea… [...]

Putting people into the protocol

I really don’t like the phrase “user-centric identity” and as I struggled to name this post, I came upon Pete Rowley’s 2006 phrase the people are in the protocol.
This isn’t much different from what I used to call “people in the browser” when I was at Flock, so I’ll use it.
Anyway, as part of another [...]

Announcing OAuth 1.0 Public Draft 1

Well, it’s been a long time coming, and if you’ve been following my Twitters at all, you’ll know that I’ve been working on an open, community-driven authentication protocol called OAuth for the past few months. Today we released the first Public Draft for review.
The idea started as a humble effort to accomplish two goals: first, [...]