links for 2008-01-16
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008- With friends like these: on the politics of the people behind Facebook
opinionated piece on Peter Thiel, investor behind Facebook (and Rapleaf, unmentioned here!). “experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies”
(tags: facebook politics peterthiel libertarianism technology renegirard privacy theguardian neoconservatism)
- twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter
1. follow twauth on twitter
2. use http://twauth.ianloic.com/yourtwittername as your OpenID identity.
(more at http://ianloic.com/2008/01/13/a-simpler-mobile-openid-workflow/ )(tags: openid twitter authentication proofofconcept mobile)
- [video] DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix
2′ animation explaining and promoting the dataportability concept (on Vimeo)
(tags: infographics activism dataportability socialnetworking socialnetworks video animation portablesocialnetworks)
- What can/should you do with an OpenID end-point?
“OpenID + Attribute Xchange for use with browser to move private (and public if wanted) data while logging in and OAuth + AX for web services: which ideally would be automatically setup when the user logs in for the first time to the service.”
(tags: oauth openid digitalidentity urls scottkveton autodiscovery webservices attributeexchange)
- [video] Creating a screencast with Camtasia Studio 4
Howto and tips by demogirl Molly McDonald from demogirl.com
(tags: howto screencast screencasting tutorial tips camtasiastudio camtasiastudio4)
- [mp3] Interview with Scott Kveton on Data Portability (and OpenID)
by Dawn Foster, in the The Fast Wonder Community Podcast
(tags: dataportability scottkveton openid portablesocialnetworks mp3 tolisten interview)