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Some challenges in current DataPortability trends
In the last couple of weeks there have been a number of very positive steps forward for Data Portability in general and the DataPortability Project specifically. These include wins by the OpenID...
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Responses to DataPortability questions
Chris Messina has posted a fantastic post on his blog about DataPortability. It is a real pleasure to read his thoughtful and well articulated questions, concerns and compliments about the project. I...
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Using email as OpenID
One of the most common comments/questions I get while talking about data portability is ‘The OpenID User Experience sucks – how do we make it more user friendly?’. The problem is two fold. First, users...
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The web-wide social network
Ross Dawson has an excellent summary of a Gartner presentation on the Distributed Social Web by David Cearley. A web where each participant is their own central node on a web-wide social network. It is...
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Is Data Portability Safe?
‘What about privacy and security’ is a question that comes up regularly when discussing Data Portability. I’d like to address some of the reasons why Data Portability is actually good for privacy. More...
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Proposal: OpenID Connect
OpenID needs to be as simple as Facebook Connect if it has any chance of competing. The problem is User Experience. It’s a nightmare. My proposal: All Email providers and OpenID Consumers (particularly...
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Facebook Vanity URLS are not what you think
Facebook has announced that they are about to release vanity URLs. What most people don’t realize is that this move, while interesting, is not really about vanity URLs at all – it’s actually about...
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