Category Archives: Life online

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 [...]

Celebrate the open web on OneWebDay!

In case you didn’t hear, OneWebDay is coming up next week on Tuesday, September 22. The event is modeled after Earth Day and was started three years ago by Susan Crawford, a technology policy advisor to President Obama. Mozilla is doing their part with their own poster/photo contestand a specific call to action: Print and [...]

Windows Live and MySpace ship support for activity streams

Earlier today, Rob Dolin announced the launch of additional sources of activities for Windows Live users — including MySpace, Hulu, Skyrock, and SlideShare. Writing on the Windows Live Services blog, he outlines the premise behind the Activity Streams effort (emphasis original): With today’s latest partner integrations on Windows Live, we’ll have over fifty web activities [...]