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• Disqus Improves User Experience of OpenID

  February 13, 2010 in OpenID

  Sometimes the results of OpenID logins look a little bit strange, certainly not as expected by users. Blog comments are a good example. Usually I would expect my real name or username displayed there but occasionally it looks like this:

  The provider simply didn’t send my name (Google in this case).
  While some providers allow personas, i.e. [...]

• OpenID: Another Connect and Marketing

  January 6, 2010 in OpenID

  Oh no, not another post on OpenID already, you might think. Well, the new year is only a few days old and there are already three posts and tweets respectively that got me thinking about it again. But if you don’t want to read about OpenID again, just ditch this post.
  The Idea of [...]

• Hidden Progress of OpenID

  December 17, 2009 in OpenID

  Yesterday, the

• Great Customer Service for a Foolish Guy

  October 29, 2009 in General

  This blog post is a little bit different from the not so relevant open web centric stuff you usually find here. However I think it’s a good story about great customer service. So why not share it with you, although I play the stupid part in this story?
  On Sunday I checked my credit card bill [...]

• Microformateers: Quick Microformats Support

  October 25, 2009 in Microformats

  Microformats are really cool. Small snippets of code that semantically describe various information included in any published text on the web. It’s not visible information for end-users but rather metadata that can be crawled and parsed by search engines or extracted by other means, like browser add-ons.
  While microformats are rather simple – even I understand [...]