October 20, 2008 – 11:10 am
The latest Apple vs. Microsoft ads are hilarious even if there are a few folks pointing out the hypocrisy in the first ad. Regarding spending money on advertising Regarding getting back to simple naming
September 30, 2008 – 6:21 pm
It’s been a very long time since my last blog post, and an incredible amount of stuff has changed since then. My wife, plus our cats and a blueberry bush moved to Portland, OR along with the rest of Vidoop on a road trip that we called the Oregon Trail (the day 4 video is [...]
Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 blog has a very interesting post that wonders if Facebook Connect might prevent OpenID adoption. I think he’s vastly oversimplifying the ecology of turning a good idea into a monopoly when it’s surrounded by interoperable alternatives. I have no doubt at all that Facebook will get significant traction with this (Dick’s [...]
I’ve seen an interesting, and maybe alarming, trend of using a person’s twitter username prefixed with an ‘@’ to refer to a person almost everywhere on the web. Granted, this is only happening in the highly interconnected early adopter circles that both blog and are well-known tweeters. But that’s the sort of thing, and the [...]
Kudos to Microsoft for announcing its intention to bring OpenID support to HealthVault, and congratulations to TrustBearer for being HealthVault’s first announced OpenID provider! Assuming Microsoft isn’t just in this for the press release, and gets support for this turned on fairly quickly, this is the first public enterprise-grade OpenID Relying Party of which I’ve [...]
February 3, 2008 – 10:35 pm
I’m sure I should be embarrassed to admit this, but when it comes to 21st century staple TV genres, my hands-down favorite is what I like to call “The Evil Psychology Experiment” sub-genre of reality TV. I was just thinking back through my list of favorites, and was going to claim that “The Joe Schmo [...]
December 3, 2007 – 5:42 pm
I’ve noticed an ever-increasing trend on my favorite laptop that sometimes it just doesn’t feel like hearing every keypress. It’ll often leave some random letter out of a word if I’m typing at full speed. Today, I finally spotted that it only happens in my web browser, and furthermore, I noticed that it only happens [...]
October 20, 2007 – 7:51 pm
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 [...]
October 15, 2007 – 3:47 pm
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 [...]
October 4, 2007 – 9:53 pm
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 [...]