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 [...]
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 [...]
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 authorization 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: [...]