Tag Archives: openid

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 Fall of Vidoop

When I left Flock in 2006, I blogged the occasion, having helped start the company by contributing a vision for what I thought the web needed: a social browser.
When I was laid off from Vidoop last month, I didn’t so much as tweet about it. The circumstances were different this time. But because the lack [...]

Does OpenID need to be hard?

Prompted by posts by Randy Reddig and Tony Stubblebine and a conversation with Elliott Kember, I wanted to address, yet again, the big fat stinking elephant in the room: OpenID usability and the paradox of choice.
Elliott proposed a pretty clear picture of what he thinks OpenID should look like on StackOverflow, given the relative value [...]