Tag Archives: DiSo

Responding to criticisms about OpenID: convenience, security and personal agency

Chris Dracket responded to one of my tweets the other day, saying that “OpenID should be dead… it’s way over-rated”. I’ve of course heard plenty of criticisms of OpenID, but hadn’t really heard that it was “overrated” (which implies that people have a higher opinion of OpenID than it merits). Intrigued, I replied, asking him [...]

Where we’re going with Activity Streams

The DiSo Project is just over a year old. It’s remained a somewhat amorphous blob of related ideas, concepts and aspirations in my brain, but has resulted in some notable progress, even if such progress appears dubious on the surface. For example, OAuth is a core aspect of DiSo because it enables site-to-site permissioning and [...]

I’m a candidate for the board of the OpenID Foundation!

The OpenID Foundation board election opened up on December 10. After a grueling nominations process (not really), we were left with 17 candidates vying for seven community board member seats. Your candidates are (alphabetized by first name): Allen Tom Brian Kissel Chris Messina ← that’s me! David Recordon Dick Hardt Eran Hammer-Lahav Eric Sachs Johannes [...]