Friday, 17th August 2007
OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience. Realistic, detailed look at the many usability problems that currently surround OpenID—and a good list of suggested fixes at the end. This is why I’ve been advocating OpenID as a tool for early adopters: they can help smooth out the experience for everyone else.
Windows Live ID Web Authentication Released! Passport lives again! Who’s going to be first to build an idproxy.net for it?
DictMixin. I wasn’t aware of this Python class (part of the UserDict module): lets you implement __get__, __set__, __del__ and keys() and provides the other dictionary methods for you.
Learning jQuery. An entire year’s worth of jQuery tutorials, split in to beginner, intermediate and advanced.
VeriSign’s SeatBelt OpenID plugin for Firefox. The first good example of browser integration for OpenID. It catches phishing attempts by watching out for rogue OpenID consumers that don’t redirect to the right place.
Base32 encoding (via) I was on the verge of inventing this when I discovered that Douglas Crockford had invented it for me.
A Change of Pace. David Recordon is heading back to Six Apart as Open Platforms Tech Lead, where it looks like he might get to work on social network portability.
Thoughts on the Social Graph. I think social network portability will happen within the next year.
Fixing GC issues on IE 6: New IE download. Microsoft have released Windows Script Host / Script Runtime version 5.7, which apparently cleans up a bunch of IE 6 memory leaks.