Back around March of this year, Vito Miliano created a greasemonkey “Autosave” script for Gmail. It was a great idea and solved a very annoying problem. This morning I logged into Gmail and noticed the “New! Auto-save and more” link in bright red at the top of the page. Turns out, Gmail went ahead –… Read more »
Author: zaskoda
My idenity server idea is terribly flawed.
My identity concept was horribly flawed. I’m a little surprised I overlooked something so terribly obvious. As such, I suddenly realize what aspect of the identity problem OpenID serves to solve so nicely. I wanted to have a “home” system… and when logging on to a community, you would pass your login, password, and home… Read more »
Identity 2.0
I’m a huge advocate for the creation of a new generation of online identification. Dick Hardt of Sxip explained the current identity scene very well at OSCON. You can watch the entire presenation of Identity 2.0 right here. I’m was blown away at with Dick’s presentation. It was both informative and entertaining. He’s given me… Read more »
The Ban Bin – How effective is a forum jail?
In June I made a post titled “A Few Good Forum Ideas” where I first mentioned the idea of putting a jail on the Gearbox Forums. I said I would discuss the results of the jail if we actually implemented it – and we did. I’ll jump straight to the point – the jail, or… Read more »
Isogame – The Virtual World Based Forum Interface Experiment
Several months ago, I started a project I called Isogame. Using bits of programmer art, art from old projects, and art borrowed from google images (apologies to artists) – I built a very basic isometric map with an html interface. Using some custom forum software I’d developed for another project, I connect each tile to… Read more »
News Corp Buys Again – Fox owns gaming community network IGN
News Corp must have a plan. Either that, or they’re still operating off of that mentality that drove so many investors to waste cash during the bubble. Recently I mentioned that News Corp picked up Myspace for $580 million. This time, News Corp purchased the massive gaming community network IGN. The price tag on IGN?… Read more »
Domain Squatters: Are they getting worse?
Is it just me, or is it getting to be impossible to secure a reasonable domain name? I recently had several of my domains expire. Some were live projects that I eventually stopped caring about, others were projects I never got posted and gave up on. I was considering revisiting one of these projects and… Read more »
ComScore Inflates Numbers: A Bogus Blog Report
The Social Software Weblog posted a bit about comScore‘s “Behaviors of the Blogosphere“. Halfway through the report, I was shocked. Ranking high in a graph titled “Top Blogs Ranked by Visits”, I found sites such as Drudge Report, Fark, and Slashdot. First I thought, “these sites aren’t blogs, what are they doing in this report?”… Read more »
Bringing Communities Together: Under One Login
Problem: I frequent several different communities on a regular basis and I must maintain an individual profile on each of them. Solution: One login to rule them all. The monolithic dark lords of all that is digital tried to solve this problem; but they have failed… Users did not want to sell their private lives… Read more »
Beyond the Blog: Blogging Alternatives
Blog Blog Blogidy Blog I suppose I’ve been a blogger longer than I realized. In August of 1996, I started making weekly web updates regarding the progress I was (or wasn’t) making on a computer RPG project. Back then, we just called them websites. Actually, to be more accurate, we called them Web sites as… Read more »