I’ll be attending the upcoming Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) May 18-20, 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The event started in 2005 and has become a staple of the identity community over the past several years, contributing to the emergence of technologies like OpenID and OAuth. This year’s event promises to [...]
Arrington has a post that claims that Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start – users love vanity URLs. I don’t buy it. In fact, I’m pretty sure that the omission of vanity URLs on Facebook is an intentional design decision from the beginning, and one that I’ve learned to [...]
(Filed under: sharks jumped.) Brynn got this in the mail last week and shared it with me. Let’s just say that it struck a nerve. I’ve worried for some time that “open” as a market differentiator is becoming diluted and washed out, just as “organic” and “green” before. Like “2.0″, companies are coming to see [...]