I’ve recently been answering questions in the TextDrive forums about OpenID. There is a genuine growing interest in this burgeoning technology and a sense of excitement when people figure out what it can do and why it’s a good thing. OpenID works for you in a couple different ways: 1) You can use your OpenID […]
Tagged claimID, OpenID, textdriveNate Anderson, over at Ars Technica, has a tidy write-up on our children’s coming information literacy tests. The college-bound students of the next few years may very well have a new test to get through – in addition to the SAT or the ACT. Students today are more connected than ever. They have email, mobile […]
Tagged ets, ict, information, information literacy, media literacyI wrote to Evan Prodromou yesterday – after staring at the MediaWiki code for about an hour trying to figure out how to write an extension. Needless to say, it was one of the most productive emails I’ve ever written since within about 8 minutes (give or take a night’s sleep), a MicroID extension was […]
Tagged claimID, extension, mediawiki, MicroID, wikipediaA roundup of links pointing to Ian Kallen‘s announcement last night of Technorati’s new, shiny OpenID support: Marshall Kirkpatrick at Techcrunch Johannes Ernst Scott Kveton Christian Stocker This is a mid-major player now supporting another open standard. Only good things can come of this kind of implementation. And it will continue to gain in value […]
Tagged OpenID, technoratiI noticed a couple days ago that one of our claimID users (and Yahoo! employee), lmorchard, had successfully claimed his del.icio.us page with a MicroID. This was news to me, as I couldn’t do that just a few days before… I have confirmed that user pages at del.icio.us are now publishing MicroIDs in their headers […]
Tagged claimID, delicious, MicroID, yahooNetwork effects are very powerful. They are also very hard to come by, by definition, as most of the time you’re not the one enjoying them. Network effects are blessed upon those who are popular, have a lot of attention being paid to them, and/or are active participants in their own success. They feed themselves […]
Tagged citizendium, momentum, PowerOfMany, sangerI just released a very small MicroID mod (download) for the bulletin board system, PunBB. The release description: This mod will display a MicroID ( http://microid.org ) on a user’s profile in the head tag. This mod allows a user’s profile to be ‘claimed’ by a third party that has independently verified the user’s email […]
Tagged MicroID, mod, punbbEarlier, I wrote about Last.fm’s statement of intent to publish MicroIDs on their user pages. Well, the month has passed, and it’s live. You will now find a MicroID (computed from the page’s URL and your registered email address) in the head area of your user profile page at Last.fm. And the verification works flawlessly […]
Tagged claimID, lastfm, MicroIDWe’ve seen systems crop up in the last few years that tap the power of many. Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Wikipedia, etc. These systems are very powerful – they opened our eyes to the power of collective knowledge. We each know a bit, but together, we know a whole lot more. We can spots duplicates. We […]
Tagged citizendium, democracy, expertise, networks, opinion, wikipediaFacebook has updated their privacy controls and now provides the ability to block a fair amount of personal activity information from being broadcast. This is exactly what they should do and what they should have provided at the time of the launch of Mini-Feed and News Feed. Both Fred and danah have weighed in and […]
Tagged facebook, PowerOfMany, privacy
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