Tag Archives: openid

Announcing Emailtoid: mapping email addresses to OpenIDs

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 [...]

The OpenID mobile experience, part II

In January, I wrote about the “OpenID mobile experience” lamenting that it sucked and asking for positive examples of identity providers who got it right. Well, I didn’t get a whole lot of examples, but Ian McKellar (Songbird) did get inspired to hack something together called Twauth, which serves as the foundation for a flow [...]

I’m joining Vidoop to work on DiSo full time

Well, Twitter, along with Marshall and his post on ReadWriteWeb, beat me to it, but I’m pretty excited to announce that, yes, I am joining Vidoop, along with Will Norris, to work full time on the DiSo (distributed social) Project.
For quite some time I’ve wanted to get the chance to get back to focusing on [...]