November 2008
23 posts
“This is the real “Code Red.” As one banker remarked to me: “We finally found the...”
– Thomas Friedman
Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can... →
Shared by Alex
Very cool idea. Would be killer for customer support at smaller companies.
Seth Godin on 'The Edifice Complex'
Hey writes,
“Why do banks spend so much money on marble lobbies, high ceilings and yes, $400 million to name a baseball stadium?…Do you really want to invest money at a bank run by a guy with nothing but a bridge table and a cheap suit? Probably not. At some level, we like the confidence that we get from that big lobby. We are more likely to perk up when the reporter has her cameraman...
My Post at South Africa Connect
Check out my guest post at South Africa Connect, a blog run by Alex Comninos, my advisor for research I did on access to technology in South Africa. He’s also my friend and a very intelligent ICT researcher in South Africa. Check out the blog if you get a chance.
There’s all kinds of interesting things going on with ICT in SA, and this blog is a good place to stay up to date. We often...
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My day so far at #IIW
I think my favorite session of the day was the first, which was on combining OAuth and OpenID. This seems to be the natural next step, and I hope the community figures out how to combine authentication and authorization [of sharing data]. Good points were made re: how average user just doesn’t get the difference between these two steps. Most of the session was above my head technically, but...
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Day 1 of the Internet Identity Workshop
Today kicked off the Internet Identity Workshop 2008b. I headed over to The Computer History Museum, just a mile from Google, after lunch. Slowly, the room began to fill with the giants of the identity world, those personas I’d only read about on the blogs.
I’ll give a short outline of the talks, but John McCrea has a post up with some great photos too.
Johannes Ernst of Net Mesh...
peppermint tea and sunday night work
Trying to grok OAuth spec today in prep for iiw2008b tomorrow
The Next President
From The Times,
This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing to reflect on the basic facts:
An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power and wealth, has been elected the 44th president of the United States.
Wow.
“let us ask ourselves — if our children should live to see the next century; if...”
– this was my favorite line of the speech. we must look forward, never back. we have a leader now who knows that.
Transcript: ‘This is your victory,’ says Obama - CNN.com
(via fred-wilson)
Gnip Takes A $3.5 Million Financing To Continue... →
I know this back end plumbing stuff is boring to most of you, but Gnip is worth the trouble to understand. The company, which helps ease the transportation of social content between services…
Every child's dream: the flying car →
Chronicling abhorrent behavior
Our Vote Live
My (least) favorite:
North Carolina: Fliers were left on cars at a shopping mall instructing Republicans to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 4th (actual Election Day) and Democrats to vote on Wednesday Nov. 5th.
City and County of San Francisco Proposition R
Up for vote on November 4th:
“Proposition R: Renaming the Oceanside Water Treatment Plant.”
The proposed new name?
George W. Bush Sewage Plant.