Posted in internet, technology on Apr 29th, 2008
I’ve been writing a How it Works on OpenID. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a decentralised ID system that stops the user having to remember and provide separate login credentials for every online service. Instead, you assert ownership of a URI which becomes your OpenID login. Eyes glazing over? Therein lies the [...]
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Posted in internet, politics, technology on Apr 16th, 2008
This is sort of the second half to the earlier Microsoft post, where I was rambling on about people running lightweight operating systems on lightweight computers, and only requiring lightweight applications delivered through a browser. I’m reminded of the Network Computer, or NC, something that a consortium of manufacturers and the database company Oracle tried [...]
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