Month: October 2008
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Why OpenID Attribute Exchange is a lousy idea
Attribute Exchange is a lovely idea. It happens like this: when you log in, the application you’re logging into asks the application that holds your account whether it knows about certain pieces of arbitrary data about you. Things like your website address, Twitter account, and so on. The smart thing is that, like OpenDD and […]
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Statistics and assumptions
By far the most popular photo on my Flickr photo stream is this one: It’s a picture of my sister in Cornwall, where she was a warden on Looe Island for a summer. It’s had somewhere in the region of 6300 views, accounting for over a sixth of the views on my Flickr account (which […]
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You’re no-one if you’re not on Twitter
As has been reported by everyone and his dog in the tech echo chamber, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey have swapped roles at Twitter. I really like the Twitter guys; I’ve met Ev and Biz in different contexts, and they’re both extremely open and generous with their time. Although I’ve never met Jack, I bet […]
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Brighton, Edinburgh and the Elgg Meet
Last Thursday I found myself in Brighton, which is a revelation – a concentrated community of tech entrepreneurs who get to live by the sea, drink at awesome cafés and have the kind of social values I love. As well as some consultancy at the University of Brighton, we were there for an Elgg Meet, […]