Tag archive 'Shape of the World'

OpenID ≻ Plastic ID Cards

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-12-28

Everyone have got a large stack of plastic cards who only purpose is to identify you to one or another digital system. You have to have a separate card for each of your banks, a library card, an identity card, a bus card, a gym card, … Let us just say there is a lot of them. But why can we not have the convince of OpenID—the open source decentralised authentication framework—conveyed to out plastic cards as well as our web passwords? At least something similar.

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Blogging for open source

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-10-24

Want to get paid for writing about open source projects? How about getting paid and supporting open source projects at the same time?

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Decentralized chat networks proven better

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-08-20

Skype's recent three day network‐wide failure expose how bad centralized networks are compared to decentralized networks such as XMPP. I'll let BBC News explain what happen:

In a statement posted on its website, Skype said the widespread outage began after Skype's servers around the world re‐started following a software upgrade to user's computers.

The knock‐on effect was that an unusually high number of people tried to log on to the system at once and the Skype network could not cope.

To make matters worse, the scale of the failure exposed a previously unknown bug in the algorithm that should have helped the Skype network recover quickly.

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The West handles the information age all wrong

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-08-01

The article Pandora's Technology Box really touches important issues in the first-world and how the world handles information technology. The information age is upo us, but the West is handling it all wrong.
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