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 »
Month: September 2005
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 »