http://depressionisms.com/tblog Craig's-a-tag-a Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:24:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Single registrars are a point of failure. Registrars /must/ secure their identifiers from point of creation to point of use somehow to ensure integrity. This involves securing the root name servers and every name server in between to the client and/or adding another layer that secures the actual data. On the other ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/06/08/persistence-why-there-should-be-no-cost-to-minting-identifiers/ I originally wrote this as commentary to a question on the Tetherless World - Research Constellation, Future of the Web site. XRI and the W3C have been going at it recently over this and a number of other issues. XRI uses persistent i-numbers or URNs and was recommended against by the ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/06/03/persistence-is-a-matter-of-management-and-openness/ I just watched Joe Armstrong's excellent talk on Concurrency Orientated Programming from JAOO. Google it on InfoQ. For a while now I've been thinking about implementing such a system in hardware itself. Here's how it would go: Embedded Concurrent Exokernel on FPGA = Embedded Concurrency Orientated Programming. Embedded Concurrent Network Programming = Embedded ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/06/01/embedded-concurrency-orientated-programming-on-the-road-to-intelligence/ It's awesome, but what if you had unique icons that arranged differently each time you went to unlock it while your sequence stayed the same. People looking on may find it harder to follow your movements. Some simple "start" and "end" point markers is another option. Going further still... timing ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/06/01/the-android-unlock-interface/ I've been reading of the XRI vote and kerfuffle with the W3C and thinking about persistence after my last post. As an onlooker a while ago I began wondering XRI why? Why couldn't an abstract URI or PURL eg. 3n265n2.name be used as the identifier like an i-number and registered for ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/06/01/the-why-of-xri/ Duncan Riley writes it's time for FriendFeed to Kill Twitter. I have to say I find his post both hilarious and ironic considering his exploits on one of the 2web podcasts that went something along the lines of; distaste for FriendFeed living off others content. Which it mostly does. :) As ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/05/26/on-twitter-media-friendfeed-and-quasi-decentralization/ With the Internet Identity Workshop not far away, Alec Muffett writes of his distaste for parts of the current state of the Identity space. Hallelujah. I've been wanting to write this for a long time... now seems like as good a time as any to add my thoughts. My takeaway of ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/05/10/online-identity-your-doing-it-wrong/ Niall Kennedy has a post[1] on browser history visited link sniffing. By injecting popular links using JavaScript and checking css :visited, he's able to track where people have been and customize the user experience to suit. It has privacy implications, I can see this being used to build up user ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/02/09/building-user-profiles-by-data-mining-browser-history-visited-links/ Predications are a needs based and what I'm seeing technologists need right now are tools to effectively handle concurrency, conmen and distribution of the wealth(personal information). Right now everyone is talking about identity, open data, sharing of content across sites securely. There's aggravation for web developers with the lack of innovation going ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2008/01/02/2008-the-year-of-con-currency/ I've been thinking about form-factor classes to do with internet enabled devices and decided to come up with my own list. Here goes: Digital Audio Player* Phone* Pocketable (N810)** Portable (eg. Everun/WiBrain)** Microbook (HTC Shift) eReader* (Kindle) Minibook* (Eee PC 7-10") Tablet PC Notebook* *Gadgets I can use. **Pocketable vs Portable is a hard one. A fast one with touch-screen friendly ... http://depressionisms.com/tblog/2007/12/22/my-mobile-internet-device-form-factors/