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ted dziuba

The last thing the Internet needs: more solutions

Cherished crank Ted Dziuba, the cofounder of news-search startup Pressflip, still hates the Internet. His latest target: OpenID, a technology he accuses of being "too San Francisco" — all idealistic posturing, no practical application. OpenID is a universal user-authorization scheme created by Brad Fitzpatrick back when he was at LiveJournal. An average user, Dziuba complains, doesn't need OpenID if they want to have a shared login across multiple websites — they just use the same login and password across multiple websites. More »

2:20 PM on Tue Sep 2 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
802 views, 14 comments

Latest by Shadowlayer: Even my grandma can remember codes... If anyone is interested I just got an idea for a password service thats actually more »

geek love

Chadrick, the new Robert Scoble, loves everything

The best thing about drunkblogging? When people send in detailed corrections about your alcohol-addled ramblings. Chadrick Baker, lover of tech women, lover of the Internet, now informs me that his affections are unlimited. I'm appointing him Valleywag's new mascot, replacing Robert Scoble. His email, after the jump: More »

8:40 AM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Owen Thomas
699 views, 5 comments

Latest by parislemon: who's the troublemaker now Chadrick? more »

social networks

Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea

A Valleywag spy reports sighting Brad Fitzpatrick, the creator of LiveJournal and outgoing Six Apart executive, at Philz Coffee in San Francisco. Fitzpatrick was there with book publisher and geek icon Tim O'Reilly and David Recordon, a former Six Apart engineer who left to join VeriSign last year. The three were working on a presentation on "social network portability." Now, that's no surprise — Fitzpatrick has been openly interested in the idea of swapping personal information between websites for a while, and he and Recordon — who we hear, by the way, may be rejoining Six Apart — helped create the OpenID standard, which helps accomplish just that. No, what makes this geek sighting fascinating is that Fitzpatrick, we hear — though neither he nor Google has confirmed this — is headed to Google. And Google has been trying to get back in the social-network game. More »

2:35 PM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By Owen Thomas
2,776 views, 6 comments

Latest by Joe Clark: By "though neither he nor Google has confirmed this," do you mean to suggest you masqueraded as a real journalist more »