Archive for September, 2010
Despite knowing that ‘free 3G’ is a trap I still ordered a Kindle 3G. There was nobody home when the postman came yesterday, so I had to pick it up from the depot this morning before rushing for my train (depot opens at 0800, train leaves at 0803, I just made it). This isn’t intended [...]
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Tags: 3G, amazon, ebook, kindle, reader, review
Identity Providers – Facebook
This is my third post in a series looking at how federated identity has becoming a reality (I first looked at Twitter, and then Google). Before we get started I kind of liked Facebook in the early days that I used it, but frankly I never expected it to last. I thought that like the social [...]
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Tags: Facebook, Facebook connect, federated, federation, Graph API, oauth, OpenID, persona, single sign on, SSO
When I registered thestateofme.com some years back it was for a project to allow synchronisation of RSS aggregator/reader state across a number of systems. I never wrote any code because things got overtaken by events. Firstly I discovered RSS Bandit, which had a mechanism to sync state via a WebDAV server (and a number of [...]
Filed under: cloud, could_do_better, media, technology | 7 Comments
Tags: audiobook, bookmark, cloud, ebook, media, player, reader, state, sync, synchronisation, video
Identity Providers – Google
This is my second post in a series looking at how federated identity has becoming a reality (I first looked at Twitter). The user experience The basic premise of federated identity is first you sign into something that you use a lot, and then the platform reuses that sign in to get you into other [...]
Filed under: identity | 5 Comments
Tags: federated, federation, gapps, gmail, google, identity, OATH, oauth, OpenID, persona, single sign on, SSO, two factor
iOS 4 on iPod Touch 2G
I heard quite a few friends whining that iOS 4 wasn’t a good ‘upgrade’ on their iPhone 3G(S)s, with many reverting back to versions of 3.x that were considered faster or more stable. I was therefore somewhat sceptical about upgrading my iPod Touch 2G, and would have left it be if it wasn’t for so many apps [...]
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Tags: 2G, 4.x, iOS, ipod, iPod Touch, Touch
Identity Providers – Twitter
Federated identity seems to have sneaked up on us. A couple of years back federated identity was some huge enterprisey thing that was costly and took time to implement. Then a bunch of service providers started to be identity providers, but there were no relying parties making the whole effort somewhat useless. Now it seems [...]
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Tags: federated, federation, identity, oauth, OpenID, PeerIndex, persona, PlanCa.st, twitter
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