Excellent insight into the ongoing battle between Microsoft and Google was presented in the NYtimes article, “Google Gets Ready to Rumble with Microsoft.” The overall argument from Google is essentially, quit paying for Microsoft Office and use Google Apps, it’s free and stored on the web. Which are fighting words for Microsoft since [...]

Just to recap, I’ve been writing about my philosophy of authentication, which I call sustainable authentication. So far, I’ve given two rules:
1. Authentication should remain relevant and viable in spite of advances in computing power.
2. The sustainable authentication system provides acceptable levels of security regardless of any user configuration.
The third and final principle of Sustainable [...]

Back in April when we launched our company at the Web 2.0 Expo, we made the statement that we intended to share advertising revenue with OpenID enabled Relying Parties. Thanks to our many advertising partners, we are excited to announce that on January 1, 2008 we will begin paying members of the Vidoop Affiliates [...]