'Opinion' Category
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Google Developer Day 2008 Israel (yes, it’s in Israel)
September 22, 2008About a year and a half ago I’ve written about Google Israel’s position in the Israeli development community (actually, there lack of) and that a company like Google should be more involved. This was written around the time the 2007 Google Developer Day happened in more than 10 places around the world but not in [...]
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Plaxo OpenID support lacks OpenID Delegation support
July 19, 2007UPDATE: Plaxo DO support delegation, just not XRDS. It seems a WP database problem caused some of my OpenID delegation plug-in to mess up settings the wrong openid.server and openid.delegate values. It should have been http://www.myopenid.com/server for openid.server and http://eran.myopenid.com for openid.delegate. The problem was due to the fact that XRDS is yet to be [...]
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Twitter and OpenID
March 25, 2007Dave Winer says: “[...] we could make Twitter the open identity system we’ve been looking for. Make your Twitter ID the one that you use to log on to other service [...]“ I say let Twitter support OpenID with all of the good Relaying Party Best Practices including (but not limited to): Ability to associate [...]
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Why use OpenID? – A matter of choice (and consolidation)
March 7, 2007One of the advantages of OpenID is that it enabled you, the user, to consolidate various accounts on various web sites into one (or more, if you have more than one OpenID) identity. Of course you get the side benefit of having only one login and password to use, but for the sake of this [...]
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Recursive Definitions
December 19, 2006If you have a cool new startup that is going to launch and all you have to say about it to better describe it is “It’s Flickr+YouTube+Riya+[Enter a cool new startup with cool technology or hype here]” something is wrong with your pitch. If you can’t describe your startup in layman’s terms without using the [...]
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Folksonomies, Taxonomies and Coexistence
November 20, 2006I have read “Beneath the Metadata” as well as its reply by Dave Weinberger. I’ve also read Thomas Vander Wal’s response. I personally think that folksonomies are not here to replace taxonomies. If Elaine fears the use of folksonomy for classifying Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), she should not. Folksonomies will (probably) never completely replace [...]
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An idea to better promote Google Talk in a corporate envrionment
August 30, 2006I just read this post about the deal that eBay and Google signed which will also allow Google Talk and Skype to interoperate and possibly be able to communicate even via chats. It them folloed by an enlightened moment (Ka ching!) where I thought of an idea that Google can use to deepen Google Talk`s [...]
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Own your authentication!
June 29, 2006After Passport Windows Live ID and the Liberty Alliance Project now comes Google Account Authentication, which opens up the ability to use anyone’s Google Account to perform authentication to a system. What surprises me in this whole deal is that it seems we are going backwards, back to a “one authentication to rule them all” [...]
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The feed reader of my dreams
April 25, 2006I’m what you may call a medium to heavy feed junkie. I read most of the information today using my favorite feed reader RSS Bandit. While RSS Bandit is a great feed reader it does have its limitations. The biggest one being that its a client side application and it doesn’t sync to one of [...]
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ajaxWrite and Open Office / Open Document Format
March 23, 2006I just read on Om Malik on Boardband that Michael Robertson of MP3.com, Linspire and SIPphone fame just annonced a new project called ajaxWrite. This is a pure web application word processor without any storage behind it like Writely (when you open a document you upload it and when you save it you download it) [...]
