Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Overview of currently available geolocation/geotagging services and tools, and a bookmarklet that uses the browser's geolocation API or Google's api if the first is not available.

Discussing OAuth as (one of) the solution(s) to the username-password anti-pattern
"The difference between run-of-the-mill phishing and password anti-pattern cases is intent. Most third parties implement the anti-pattern out of necessity [...] However, by accepting and storing customer credentials, these third parties are putting themselves in a potentially untenable situation: servers get hacked, data leaks and sometimes companies — along with their assets — are sold off with untold consequences for the integrity — or safety — of the original customer data."

Write-up by Dominiek.com of a talk by Christian Heller titled "Embracing Post-Privacy".
Interesting, because it highlights a confrontation of the "old" anarchist German "Autonomen" hacker scene with the "new" Web2.0/Barcamp "Privacy belongs to the past" scene.

Chris Dracket:
1 OpenID is too complex and scary
2 potentially too insecure
3 and too confined to the hands of a few companies
Chris Messina's reply:
1 email was complex once as well
2 it's no different than email as single point of failure (and should be secured accordingly)
3 at least it is _potentially_ decentralised

Desktop (Adobe Air-based) RSS reader that syncs with Google Reader.
Downloads Feeds for reading off-line

Funny idea: offer a webservice over DNS using the subdomain part as the request keyword and the DNS txt record as response. Works faster than http, and cacheing is done by your own nameserver…

Yet another Stock photo site: time for a meta search engine?
"Stock Photography, Royalty Free Images & Licenced Stock Photos | "

Integrates search.twitter.com with Twitter, embeds rich media and expands shortened links.
Unlike services like Tweetree, who require your username/pswd to function, this Firefox extension does the same in your browser.
Hurray for client-side web experience enrichment!

Interesting discussion on the sale of a Twitter service (had 800 Twitter usernames and passwords – although afterwards the seller declared those were not included in the sale), the link with recent spamming, phishing attempts via Twitter, and whether OAuth is an adequate solution for all of this.

On-the-fly translation as you type
(Translation quality isn't any better than other services of course…)

(yet another) OpenID evangelisation site. Clear explanation, nice graphics.
By a 2-person web shop.

Javascript OpenID selector. Users select their account by a recognisable logo.