Jeffrey MacIntyre

Dare tells it like it is "At the end of the day, it is quite likely that the underlying technologies will not matter to matter to anyone but a handful of Web standards geeks and library developers. Instead what is important is for sites to participate in the growing identity provider ecosystem not what technology they use to do so." -- seen via Marc Canter - Boris Mann

An excellent book about the creation and growth of NetApp - Boris Mann

"I think it's important to think about this as a hub-and-spoke model, where Facebook is acting as your identity provider, and therefore you are going to want to stay signed in there the longest, and flit around to other sites here and there, on and off. If you had to sign in to Facebook EVERY TIME you went to a third party, that'd be a serious buzz kill. (Hence the long-lasting sessions). Now, that said, it seems like the optimal user experience is a two-step process: 1. log the user out of the local site 2. pop a lightbox that says "we've logged you out of this site; would you also like to sign out of [Identity Provider]?" If it were baked into the protocol (say, OpenID 2.1??) this would be a pretty great user experience. This is what Facebook's UI currently looks like, FYI: http://www.flickr.com/photos/f......" - Chris Messina

"Once you know you have Facebook users on your site, you can start publishing Feed stories on Facebook for the actions those users take on your site. Publishing Feed stories to a friend's Feed is not currently supported in Connect." - Chris Messina via Mento

"“Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period. Experts have long feared the Internet doomsday scenario. Daemon is arguably more terrifying.”" - Chris Messina via Mento

"Tunnelblick is a ready-to-use graphical OpenVPN client for Mac OS X. It comes as an application package with all binaries and drivers included, no manual installation necessary." - Chris Messina via Mento

Hyperion is the successor to Orion, my previous folder set. Hyperion contains 95 icons, for Windows and Mac (and other OS'es), in all sizes from 16 to 512 pixels. - Chris Messina via Mento

"Wouldn’t it be cool (and somehow creepy) to greet your visitors by their twitter name, and maybe ask them to tweet a post? It can be really easily done." - Chris Messina via Mento

This is a little unnerving and I don't know exactly why. - Alyx

Ian riffs on Jyri's Foreign Friends concept. - Chris Messina via Mento

"feedsqueezer provides sophisticated tools for the management of RSS feeds Our web services platform delivers audit-ready analytics, a powerful rules engine and flexible feed and content delivery for all types of feeds, including podcasts and other downloadable media" - Chris Messina via Mento

"semsol creates innovative web software for small businesses and knowledge workers. We are focused on agile and cost-efficient solutions based on practical semantic web technologies." - Chris Messina via Mento

Knowee is a web address book that lets you integrate distributed social graph fragments. Subscribe to profiles, feeds, or other structured data and keep track of your decentralized online social network. - Chris Messina via Mento

Social graph, address book, subscriptions - sounds intriguing. I must try it. - JMaultasch

"Kakuteru is an experimental lifestreaming service that pimps up your online activity. Kakuteru enhances your FriendFeed activity and throws some extra spices in the mix" - Chris Messina via Mento