Monthly Archives: January 2009

Inaugural Jelly! Talk this Friday: OpenID vs Facebook Connect

This Friday, I’ll be joined by Dave Morin (my good friend from Facebook) at the first ever Jelly! Talk at Joe and Brian’s loft in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar with Jelly, you should be. I call it the “gateway drug to coworking” — but it really has its own culture and identity independent [...]

What PayPal’s member in the OpenID Foundation could mean

Brian Kissel announced this morning that PayPal has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation as our sixth corporate member, with Andrew Nash, Sr., Director of Information Risk Management and a longstanding advocate for OpenID, as their representative. That PayPal has joined is certainly good news, and helps to diversify the types of companies sitting [...]

TheSocialWeb.tv #25: “An ‘Open’ Letter to the Obama Administration”

Last Friday, Joseph, John and I recorded episode #25 of TheSocialWeb.tv. Besides shout outs to 97bottles.com and Janrain for their stats on third-party account login usage, we discussed how the Obama administration might better make use of or leverage elements of the Open Stack — specifically OpenID.