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Tue, 12 May 2009 13:19:09 -0700

Google Latitude Now Lets You Publish Your Location To Gmail Chat AND Your Blog

Mon, 04 May 2009 15:48:03 -0700

Google Latitude Now Lets You Publish Your Location To Gmail Chat AND Your Blog:

“Google says that since Latitude’s launch, users expressed interest in sharing their location with people who are not their Latitude friends.”

Now you can! In these two blessed locations.

It’s taking them awhile to copy Fire Eagle… They’ll get there.

“Everything is great, and nobody is happy.” found...

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:16:25 -0800

“Everything is great, and nobody is happy.”

found here.

On the Google Talk Phishing Attack

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:01:00 -0800

On the Google Talk Phishing Attack:

And so it begins…

Phishing attack spread through a google talk message of ”Hey check out this video! http://…” where the resulting page asks you to “Log in to Google Talk to see this video”

Welcome to the world of password anti-pattern phishing.

Beautiful method of describing OAuth process on the...

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:28:30 -0800

Beautiful method of describing OAuth process on the iPhone.

“this will happen. you will return.”

Hooray for best practices!

Combining OpenID and OAuth for Login + Data Portability

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:22:30 -0800

Combining OpenID and OAuth for Login + Data Portability:

Interesting detail of the flow Plaxo has used to let people invited with an @gmail.com address log in directly from the email using their Google Account (OpenID). The sign in process also requests access to the user’s Google account info and Contacts (OAuth) which can be imported and save the user the work generally required to create an account on yet another social network.

I don’t use Plaxo because I think their premise is a bit odd. They seem to be a place to consolidate your contacts, but they also want me to connect with people through Plaxo; I’m already connected to these people somewhere else… I don’t really care if they are using Plaxo or not, but maybe that’s just me.

Plaxo aside, I would love to see other sites use a similar process. If Yahoo’s OpenID were improved to offer OAuth connections, a site like Dopplr could let users sign up and auth Fire Eagle in one transaction.

Seems like a good idea to me, OpenID/OAuth involved friends what do you think, any gotchas in this process or examples of other sites doing something similar/better?

Installing mySQL gem on OSX

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:41:54 -0800

I’ve been changing computers a lot lately and I always wind up googling the specifics of installing the mySQL gem… generally comes down to typing the path wrong, /usr/local/mysql/bin rather than /usr/local/mysql.

Anyway, this is the correct command:

$sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql

umm, cupcake camp…

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:28:00 -0800

umm, cupcake camp…