Author Archives for Thomas Huhn

certifi.ca - new OpenID Provider with secure Anti-Phishing Solution


Today I received an interesting submission on The OpenID Directory from Evan Prodromou, well known as one of the founders of Wikitravel: certifi.ca is a new OpenID Provider which uses browser based certificates like e.g. the free ones from Thawte to identify the user.
The text of the submission sounded promising: No more passwords, no more […]

Cool presentation on OpenID


Scott Kveton from JanRain has done a really cool 5 minute presentation on OpenID. What it is, why it is needed, what benefits you get, where will it head to.
A lightweight system explained in leightweight words. I think one couldn´t do better. And I hope all his predictions will come true ´till the end of […]

Poll on the Usage of OpenID


Readwriteweb has a poll going on where users can give their statements about their daily use of OpenID (if they use it at all).
By now 43% do not have an OpenID and 9% do not even know what it is. 39% own an OpenID, but do not use it very often. And only 9% use […]

AOL goes OpenID


Incredibly good news for the OpenID movement: AOL brings in 63 million new users!
Great work, John Panzer, keep on moving …

“The OpenID Directory” launched


I think the time has come to think about promoting OpenID, making it more attractive for users and rising the pressure on site owners to implement this technology.
For that reason me and my team startet gathering links of blogs, wikis, online tools and social software that are already OpenID enabled. The results were published today […]

The Future of Online Advertising (Part II)


whereas in part I of this article I have concentrated some historical development and the conclusions we can draw from the learning curve of the online advertising industry, in part II I would like to talk about the technics that are already there and which just must be used on a broader basis.
The most importent […]

My OpenID Profilelist


OpenIDs and other profiles

This big bunch of identity profiles is getting bigger all the time. I list all these identities in my blog just in case you are stumbling upon one of these and need a central information hub :) .

Tags: openid identity2.0 user-centric-identity

Typ: Analytischer Denker


Na endlich: nun hab ich es von wissenschaftlicher (?) Seite aus bestätigt, was ich eigentlich schon lange wusste: Ich bin ein AD! Nein, kein “General AD”, sondern ein “Analytischer Denker”. Zumindest sagt mir dies der 5-minütige Schnellstest unter egoload.de, einer Seite der Psychologin Felicitas Heyne.
Und im Bereich “Job” kann ich tatsächlich einige Aussagen zu […]

The Future of Online Advertising (Part I)


Online advertising has been through several changes over the last years. In the early days of the internet there was only one way advertisers and agencies could think of doing advertising on web pages: by the placement of animated graphics in different sizes. The most popular format was an animated gif in the size of […]

Great kick off for the first webmonday in Kaiserslautern


Kaiserslautern is a city with a long tradition in soccer and a short tradition in high tech.
But “short” does not mean “unsuccessful”: K-Town is full of brilliant people working for leading research institutes like Fraunhofer or DFKI and some people even call this city in the middle of the woods the “German Silicon Valley”.
Yesterday a […]