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First the PC. Second the Web. Third the Cloud. And Now.The Chain - Why Bitcoin is Not Just a Currency - It's a Platform!

Stay N' Alive

The technology behind Bitcoin, the currency that is making little-known software developers millionaires as the price has gone from less than $1 per Bitcoin to $800 per Bitcoin in just a couple years, has the potential to revolutionize the way the world authenticates human-to-human transactions within a matter of years.

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Privacy is Not an On and Off Switch – “Do Not Track” is Not the Answer

Stay N' Alive

. &# The idea being that using open technologies (we already have Information Cards , for instance), the more private information about users can be stored in the browser, reducing the risk of that information being shared by accident with 3rd party websites.

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Privacy is Not an On and Off Switch - "Do Not Track" is Not the Answer

Stay N' Alive

Awhile back I spoke of a vision of mine I call " the Internet with no login button. " The idea being that using open technologies (we already have Information Cards , for instance), the more private information about users can be stored in the browser, reducing the risk of that information being shared by accident with 3rd party websites.

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Death, Social Media, Personal Branding

Bare Feet Studios

Frequent readers of this blog know I can be a bit hard on those professions, as I was on my Dad, because I am a lover of people, of truth, of respect, and authenticity. Seems that the aggregator sites/openId sites are the first place to turn to build in a feature set “in the case of death.&#

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Why Livefyre is Here and How It Helps You

Ari Herzog

When you click the “Post comment as&# link for the first time, a window pops up prompting you to either authenticate your comment with your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, or OpenID accounts — or to choose none of the above and use your Livefyre account instead.

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Web 2.0 and Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) " Learning Matters!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ideally, combinations of tools might support interoperability/shared storage, roundtripping (the ability to send a file from one service to another and back again) and single sign on (eg using openid, yahoo or google authentication, etc). Comment by Tony Hirst — April 16, 2007 @ 3:19 pm. [.]

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