The other night at Beer and Blog in Portland, fellow Vidooper Michael T Richardson announced and launched a new service that I’m both excited and a little apprehensive about.
The service is called Emailtoid, and while I prefer to pronounce is “email-toyed”, others might pronounce it “email two eye-dee”. And depending on your pronunciation, you might [...]
Category Archives: Digital Identity
Announcing Emailtoid: mapping email addresses to OpenIDs
Jun 22nd – @ 9am
Thoughts on dynamic privacy
Jun 11th – @ 10am
A highly touted aspect of Facebook Connect is the notion of “dynamic privacy“:
As a user moves around the open Web, their privacy settings will follow, ensuring that users’ information and privacy rules are always up-to-date. For example, if a user changes their profile picture, or removes a friend connection, this will be automatically updated in [...]
Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh)
Jun 4th – @ 11pm
And then there were three.
Today, Yahoo! announced the public availability of their own Address Book API. Though Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using this API behind the scenes for a short while, today marks the first time the API is available for anyone who registers for an App ID to make use of the bi-directional [...]