talking web X.0

Thanks Richard for your citation of my post on the lifestrea.ms Blog (formerly named YoWhassup), but I hope we can proove you wrong …
“User-controlled, open Internet Identity; Thomas Huhn pointed out that “forming your online identity, controlling what personal data you give to whom and aggregating all your and your environments lifestreams in an […]

Techcrunch had an amazing post yesterday, which should make everybody think about the future of social web apps on the internet. If I draw the right conclusions we will see a future of profiles and social graphs that will be enabled to float freely between different sites.
In consequence the same thing will happen with our […]

Solution Media is preparing the launch of the private beta of lifestrea.ms, a site aimed on being your central point of connectivity to everything that touches you in real life and online.
lifestrea.ms covers all the latest concepts of social webdesign: OpenID, MicroFormats, FOAF, XFN, Micro Blogging and Lifestream Aggregation.
Head over to the Development Blog to […]

Now every blogpost can be a post on twitter.com too: the OpenID enabled service http://twitterfeed.com reads your blogs RSS-feed every 1-24 hours and posts your new entries to twitter.
This is a totally comfortable way to get some more visibility for your blog and maybe even to find some new followers .
Check out my twitter […]

Referring to Google Trends the most active international community on the topic “OpenID” are russians, followed by japanese and polish people. English is No. 4 and german resides on No. 7. Anyway we see an ongoing discussion about OpenID here in germany getting stronger every day.
What´s missing at the moment are not only OpenID enabled […]

Just to name a few: Carsten Poetter has posted a detailed review of the OIDD on his Blog, Will Norris and the MicroID mailinglist helped me out with some problems on the MicroID verification of the links and David Recordon dropped me a mail saying he likes the reviews of new OpenID enabled sites on […]

Please have a look at all the new features over there at “The OpenID Directory“. You can read more about the details at the brand new OIDD Blog.
We´ve been listening to what the community was expecting from us and we´ve been working hard on this. We would be more than happy if you´d like what […]

I was looking for ways to raise the number of subscriptions to The OpenID Directory for a while because I´m not satisfied with the number of sites represented. I think there are many more sites out there which are worth being published on the OIDD. Some may not even know that there´s a way to […]

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 […]

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 […]