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Jan 7

Happy birthday to me! I’m joining Google #

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[Google Birthday]

Yes friends, I’m turning 29 and I’ve decided to go work for The Man.


Jan 4

OpenID Connect #

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[OpenID Connect]

I’ve been thinking about how we make OpenID both easier and sexier for quite a while now.


Aug 5

OpenID: the unseen branded revenue opportunity #

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[MadMenYourself.com - MadMen Premieres August 16 only on AMC]

I’ve gone on and on about identity on the web and the battle over owning your namespace online.


Jul 21

Parsing the “open” in Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework announcement #

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[Adobe logo]

It’s not necessarily surprising that during the week of O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (aka OSCON), companies release open source code — just as they often...


Jun 17

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 at the height of cynicism #

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I shat on Opera yesterday, and I did the same thing to Mozilla a couple years ago, and while I’m not about to go headlong...

Jun 16

Thoughts on Opera Unite #

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[Opera Unite]

I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe.


Jun 9

Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity #

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[Facebook | Username]

Techmeme is buzzing with the news that Facebook is finally going to provide custom usernames — and hence web addresses — for its 200 million...


Jun 5

The Fall of Vidoop #

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[Vidoop logo]

When I left Flock in 2006, I blogged the occasion, having helped start the company by contributing a vision for what I thought the web...


May 18

The open, social web #

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[Thomas Jefferson]

I was in Europe for the past week and half, ending up in Leuven, Belgium to speak at the Twiist.be conference.


Apr 6

Does OpenID need to be hard? #

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[How OpenID should look, by Elliott Kember]

Prompted by posts by Randy Reddig and Tony Stumblevine and a conversation with Elliott Kember, I wanted to address, yet again, the big fat stinking...


Mar 21

My name is not a URL #

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[Twitter / Mark Zuckerberg: Also just created a public ...]

Arrington has a post that claims that Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start - users love vanity URLs.


Mar 3

RIP @factoryjoe #

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[Twitter / Mr Messina: Oh, and in case you missed ...]

Sometime last week, after two Manhattans, I decided to change my Twitter username from @factoryjoe to @chrismessina.


Feb 6

Where data goes when it dies and other musings #

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[Leopard Blank Slate]

I’ve been wanting to write about Ma.gnolia’s catastrophic data loss last week ever since it happened, but wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to approach...



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