Dave Recordon (and many, many, many others)points out that the Blogger Beta has added support for accepting OpenID for comments.
This is a watershed moment in terms of OpenID’s brief history as it seems to represent a change in the perception and utility of the protocol by a very significant potential proponent.
For once I [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Blogger Beta offers OpenID; or, I am mine.
Nov 30th – @ 7pm
Data banks, data brokers and citizen bargaining power
Nov 26th – @ 6pm
I wrote this this morning in a notebook as a follow up to my post yesterday… and since I don’t have time to clean it up now, I thought I’d present in raw, non-sensible form. Maybe there’s some value in a rough draft:
It’s like giving our money to a bank and having them turn around [...]
Data portability and thinking ahead to 2008
Nov 26th – @ 1am
So-called data portability and data ownership is a hot topic of late, and with good reason: with all the talk of the opening of social networking sites and the loss of presumed privacy, there’s been a commensurate acknowledgment that the value is not in the portability of widgets (via OpenSocial et al) but instead, (as [...]