[_] 4 Pownce invites available
Matt Hamilton
matth at netsight.co.uk
Tue Jul 17 10:44:44 BST 2007
Is it just me, or does anyone else here just switch off at the mention of the next social networking site? I know a lot of you are complete (social) networking junkies (yes, Thayer, looking at you :p ). I signed up to Orkut when it first opened, looked about and then not been back since then. Now it seems every week someone invites me to a new social networking site of some kind. How do all you lot use these sites to effectively communicate with all your friends when you have to send the message to a gazillion sites to make sure you reach all of them!? It seems like the IM situation a few years back... now I use Adium (or any other meta-IM client) that communicates with all, so I don't really care or even know which IM network my friends are on. At Europython last week there was a talk by Simon Willison of Django (which incidentally is what powers Pownce) about OpenID, and the notion of one identity to authenticate you to all services. Like MS Passport. But open standard. And he said that there are a myriad of services out there that can be your OpenID provider and you have the choice of which. In fact, they may all offer added value (ie if you OpenID was provided by Amazon, it might be also able to pre-fill in various things about you to a service when you subscribe. Last.fm could pre-fill in your music preferences, etc, etc). So he suggested that the marketplace will decide, and people will go to whichever provides them the added value you wanted. I asked the question, what if I'm a MSN chatting, twittring, flickring, last.fm listening, facebooker.... who do I choose to provide my OpenID? He suggested that people would in reality probabaly end up signing up with *all* of them.... so in that case you still end up with a myriad of authentication credentials... and that there is then a marketplace for 'aggregator' services to act as a proxy and be able to supply all of the information from each of the individual providers. So the future probably isn't going to be any less complicated lol -Matt On 17 Jul 2007, at 10:05, Thayer Driver wrote: > I've got loads of the bloody things too, I think 12. I am not a > Pownce > fan though, and after repeated requests to cancel my account not a > snifter of a response. > > You've been warned! :) > > Oh, and I have Bubbletop invites too... Shout offlist if you want: > http://www.bubbletop.co.uk/en_US_aboutBubbletop.jsp > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jon Hadley [mailto:me at jon-hadley.com] >> Sent: 17 July 2007 09:35 >> To: underscore at under-score.org.uk >> Subject: Re: [_] 4 Pownce invites available >> >>> The subject says it all really. Email me off-list with the email >>> address you'd like added. I've only 4 invites left right now, so it >>> will be strictly first-come and first-served. >> >> If you don't get one from Rich, I have a couple going. >> Alternatively, try inviteshare.com, I was signed up to pwonce >> and a load of other closed betas withing a couple of minutes >> of registering. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jon Hadley >> http://jon-hadley.com >> >> -- >> underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk >> >> > > -- > underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk -- Matt Hamilton matth at netsight.co.uk Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Business Vision on the Internet http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901 Web Design | Zope/Plone Development & Consulting | Co-location | Hosting