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Identity Providers and 3rd -Party Authentication, Some Data
Inspired by Luke Wroblewski's Data Monday blog posts, I rounded up some numbers on identity and authentication on the web. I'm particularly interested in the growth of third-party…
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“The age of surplus pixels”
I keep coming back to this short post by Russell Davies. (No, not that Russell Davies.) By way of reexamining Being Digital and Pointcast, he says: But we're…
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How not to handle alt text in an HTML email
I’m guessing some clever bunny at HP thought that alt tags would be a great way to get some extra marketing in when someone has images turned off…
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On taking your hobbies seriously
At a ball in New Orleans in 1802, the ex-governor Vidal's son insisted on dancing "English contredances," which were easier, or perhaps simply more to his taste, than…
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Phonogram & the limits of taste
"He's a bad person, but he has got great taste in records." "Everyone I know is a bad person with great taste in records. I can afford to…
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Quora: How third-party auth can go horribly wrong
A while back, I requested an invitation to Quora, a newfangled question-and-answer service. Yesterday, I got my invitation email, and clicked on the link. I vaguely knew that…
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