Update: The BBC has posted a write-up of the report called Easy login plans gather pace.
I was interviewed by Gareth Mitchell last week about OpenID for the BBC’s Digital Planet podcast.
Our conversation lasted about 10 minutes — of which only about two minutes survived (mirrored here as they currently do not keep an archive of [...]
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 to [...]
iTunes 8 has added a new feature called “Genius” that harnesses the collective behavior of iTunes Music Store shoppers to generate “perfect” playlists.
Had an interesting email exchange with my mom earlier today about Monica Hesse’s story Bytes of Life. The crux of the story is that more and more people are self-monitoring and collecting data [...]