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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 [...]

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 to [...]

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 [...]