Monthly Archives: October 2007

OpenID concern #1: forgotten OpenID

There are just short of 1.3 zillion OpenID concerns out there (no, seriosly–I counted), most of them well-intentioned but overblown. And most of them are just as applicable to username and password. The biggest difference is that everyone has experience with username and password and knows all of the best practices for dealing with them. [...]

Highlights from Tulsa Tech Fest 2007

I spent Friday and Saturday at the second annual Tulsa Tech Fest, a gathering of IT & software professionals from Tulsa and the surrounding area. Overall, it was a good event. Friday’s attendance was incredible, coming in somewhere around 700 attendees according to some reports. I got a chance to meet and talk to a [...]

Tulsa Tech Fest 2007: Developing Software with Security in Mind

Here are the notes from my Tulsa Tech Fest 2007 talk "Developing Software with Security in Mind". I describe 10 rules that everyone should keep in mind while developign software: Learn about security or it will teach you. Security knowledge goes obsolete quickly. Your team should have a security geek (or more). Befriend the security [...]

How to get me to use your Social Network app

I don’t have a Facebook account. I don’t do social networking today because I refuse to go to the trouble of doing redundant work on the Internet every time the fashion changes. (LinkedIn got the one exemption here, but I don’t recall why.) All of you who built a list of LiveJournal friends, and then [...]

The hard FAQs about Vidoop

There have been some good blog conversations lately about myVidoop.com and Vidoop Secure (over at Judi Sohn’s Web Worker Daily review of myVidoop, or Carleen Hawn’s write-up over at GigaOM for example). There are several really good questions that get asked often. I figured I’d collect them all here so that I have one place [...]

Every week should be like this one!

I’m seriously having about the best possible week I could have. It got started on Monday when our Biz Dev Veep and I went on a partner status trip. Our various partners are doing some very exciting things, and it was fun to spend some time with them in their own spaces. Our mid-September myVidoop.com [...]