Friday, February 16, 2007

Upgrade to Vista, Get More DRM. Upgrade to Vista, Get More DRM. Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites. [Wired News: Top Stories] 2:02:51 PM

QDN: The growing consensus behind OpenID It's because of this that I'm so happy to see an initiative like OpenID succeeding. A few years ago, the idea of OpenID was floated by the inestimable Brad Fitzpatrick (the father of LiveJournal, now a Six Apart property) as a way for people to carry around virtual identity cards on the net, and to securely use those credentials as a way of demonstrating to others on the internet who they really are. Between then and now, OpenID's development has taken place out in the open, on mailing lists and wikis and web forums, and the result is a technology that Microsoft adopted last week and AOL has been quietly rolling out to its online service and instant messenger users for a few months now. That's a great adoption rate, and I'd like to think that it's because it's a technology that's sorely needed on today's web. I'm not naive enough to think that it's a salve to cure all the net's wounds -- for example, there's still work to be done to make sure that anonymous ID providers don't become the way spammers and miscreants get around the system -- but I'm hopefuly enough to recognize that OpenID might be one of the more important building blocks to us all being able to trust our online interactions just a bit more. 1:28:06 PM

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