Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
Last week we learnt that UK based newspaper Telegraph will provide OpenID to its users. When Yahoo announced only a few days earlier, there was a general euphoria. But this time around the reaction has been lukewarm. Johannes Ernst’s reaction is noteworthy. Given the general perception that first movers will gain strategic advantage, he feels […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s big news item related to our industry was that MySpace reached an agreement with 49 of the 50 state attorneys general that it will lead the fight to stop sex predators. Based on the news reports that it will work on among other things developing better technology to screen out underage users age and […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
I came across this site ostensibly belonging to Joseph Poon. His idea is to instead of distributing a standard business card he will give one that contains the URL of that site and an access key. To get his contact information, one has to go this site and enter the access key. Then you will […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
There are reports that Google, IBM and Verisign are planning to join OpenID Foundation. But it is not clear what does this really mean. Verisign is already an OpenID Provider. Will the other two also become OPs? Since Blogger (which is part of Google) will accept OpenID as a way to authenticate commenters, will Google […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday Robert Scoble was in the news more than usual. He used a toll provided by Plaxo to scrape Facebook to retrieve his friends’ data. Since Facebook considers this to be against their Terms of Service, they blocked his account, but subsequently unblocked it. But before his account was unblocked he took questions from people […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday Robert Scoble used a tool from Plaxo to scrape Facebook to retrieve information about his friends. But Facebook deemed it a violation of its Terms of Service and blocked his account, though subsequently it was unblocked. But the more interesting aspect of this episode is the ensuing discussion. It is reassuring to know that […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
This morning Jeff Pulver posted an entry in his blog about how VoIP will again be a disruptive force in 2008. He predicts that IP Communications, which is a natural extension of VoIP, combined with social media will engage consumers in the coming year and that this combination will start social communications revolution. As a […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Happy New Year to “us”. We are looking forward to this year because we have planned to add new and exciting features that will further differentiate EnThinnai. Thank you for continuing to support us.
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