10 month ago
Andy Baio : Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo join the OpenID Foundation - holy cow, that's some mighty big guns
nelson : OpenID, the big day - All the big players join. Congratulations!
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19 month ago
nelson : Domain name scams - Profile of a guy who makes money buying and selling names, including *.cm
adamrg : Kevin Ham domainer - 300,000 domains... that's an investment. but if 1500 per domain per month minimum is reasonable, that's a ton of money.
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29 month ago
Simon Willison : I want my OpenID! - Open ID code bounties worth $5,000. Could this kickstart adoption?
kellan : Verisign of all people is getting into OpenID, open source, and Rails - $5000 for integrating OpenID into your open source project. I got no response to, "How much for including it in Flickr?" #
Paul Hammond : I want my OpenID! | The community marketing home of OpenID - Soon we will be granting $5,000 USD directly to ten open-source projects that successfully implement OpenID.
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38 month ago
kellan : EBay not actually acquiring VeriSign - So we won't be seeing 'Do you trust this certificate? A++++ excellent certificate, would do secure business with it again!!!' anytime soon. A pity. I would have rated the comment +5 insightful, not +5 funny. #
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Weblogs.com sale - I was wondering when someone would bring this up
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Udell on Veriblogspace - What is the future of open blog infrastructure?
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38 month ago
jkottke : Dave Winer comments on the weblogs.com/Verisign deal - Dave Winer comments on the weblogs.com/Verisign deal...odd omission of a link to my post even though he references it several times. Bad luck that I caught him traveling; if I'd realized that beforehand, I would have held off. Dave seems to trust Verisign
Linkorama : Dave on Selling Out - On the weblogs.com acquisition by Verisign. Onward to a more centralized blogspace.
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : Kottke says Verisign bought Weblogs.com for $5M - a match made in hell [via]
Linkorama : Weblogs.com sold to Verisign? - The latest report is that Dave Winer has sold weblogs.com to Verisign (~$5 million is the figure being bandied about).
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