Category Archives: Citizen-centric Web

Video of my talk: “Identity is the Platform”

I’ve posted the video that Brynn shot of my talk. Slides are available here.
Of course, it’s purely coincidental that I used Pownce to illustrate my story of the “death of a web app”, since it was relaunched yesterday at TypePad Motion — without any of the relationships that were lost when the service shut down. [...]

Identity is the platform

These are the slides from my talk at the Mindtrek conference in Tampere, Finland today.
I admit that there are some controversial things in this talk, but if I don’t say it, I don’t know who will. So, for the purpose of understanding this talk, it’s worth keeping in mind that I mean “OpenID” in a [...]

The Web at a New Crossroads

This post is a collaborative essay written by Jyri Engström and myself, edited by Brynn Evans and originally posted to the ArcticStartup blog on September 11, 2009. Thanks to Brad Fitzpatrick for his comments on the draft.
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Around 2003, things began to change.
Technology was then the black sheep, having left overnight millionaires destitute and without change [...]