Having all these social networking sites connecting to each other creates a huge security problem. In order to get all benefits, you need to give out your username & password for all connecting sites. Do you really trust the site owners to keep your credentials secure? Even if they promise to do that, do they know how to? Easy-to-use universal Id with strong authentication protocol will be needed some time in the future. Meanwhile I need to give a closer look to OpenId.
Jun 29, 2009
I've played with Twitter a bit - just to get feel of it. I had a Twitter gadget on my homepage for a while, but had to remove it. Twitter has options to either allow anyone to follow you posts or require an approval. Gadget required to allow anyone to follow you. However, that option also attracted suspicious followers (read: porn tweets). I really don't want to show on any porn tweet timeline, so I had to change Twitter to "closed mode" and approve each follower separately. This shouldn't be a huge task, since I don't expect to get too many followers:-)
Jun 9, 2009
Geek & Poke about homepages
I was worried about using term "homepage" already when I changed to blog-mode. It took just two weeks and Geek & Poke made fun about old-timers who still blog or - God forbid (note, I didn't use OMG) - have homepages.
Great cartoon, by the way. I especially enjoy its trashing of SOA and Cloud Computing.
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