Monthly Archives: April 2007

MicroID

Posted on 30 April 2007 by

I’ve not seen this before: MicroID – Small Decentralized Verifiable Identity. It’s like a generalisation of those “claim your site” tokens that some services ask you to embed in your HTML (e.g. Technorati) but because they’re standard they can be … Continue reading →

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Putting Faith in Garlik

Posted on 29 April 2007 by

Congratulations to Garlik who raised 6 million pounds for their RDF-powered identity analysis system.

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Ladybird

Posted on 27 April 2007 by

I love this photo that fellow Talisian, Jingye took: More here…

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Design patterns of 1972

Posted on 23 April 2007 by

Here’s the conclusion of a thought-provoking article on patterns:Design patterns of 1972 Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages. When we identify and document one, that should not be the end of the story. Rather, we should have the … Continue reading →

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Dangers of Paradigm Breaking

Posted on 23 April 2007 by

So Google decided to make all public calendars searcheable – great idea, except people are used to the default behaviour of offline personal calendars that keep your data inaccessible. It turns out that people like to keep information like usernames … Continue reading →

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Per-User Pricing at Amazon?

Posted on 20 April 2007 by

What’s this all about? I put a book in my basket at Amazon.co.uk, then realised that I wasn’t logged in. After logging in and visiting my basket I was told: Please note that the price of Founders at Work: Stories … Continue reading →

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