Disqus - Latest Comments for liamvickery

Re: Great People to Follow on Twitter

liamvickery — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:44:56 -0000

Wow, thanks for adding me on here Kate, and is lovely to see some familiar faces and names too :-)
A lady of such great taste...

Re: Great People to Follow on Twitter

liamvickery — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:39:08 -0000

Wow, thanks for adding me on here Kate, and is lovely to see some familiar faces and names too :-)
A lady of such great taste...

Re: OpenID Organizes the Organizers While Facebook and Google Start Letting Users Login

liamvickery — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:33:10 -0000

Where do we start to help? Ownership of our identities online is very important, and should be an open standard... We should not be locked into or somehow limited by a for-profit company.

What would happen to someone if they got kicked from facebook for breaching terms and conditions, and they relied on that user details to log-in to other sites? Stuck then I guess.

FaceBook is doing anything to get market share currently IMO. We'll see what happens...

Re: Facebook Sues Power.com for Not Using Facebook Connect

liamvickery — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:15:57 -0000

Open standards, freedom, security, and personal choice for the win!!! I agree with the comments so far.

Evolution: MIRABILIS --> ICQ --> AIM --> GAIM --> PIDGIN

Pidgin is an open source program, a chat and messaging client which supports many protocols, eg: * AIM * Bonjour * Gadu-Gadu * Google Talk * Groupwise * ICQ * IRC * MSN * MySpaceIM * QQ * SILC * SIMPLE * Sametime * XMPP * Yahoo! * Zephyr.

Now it is a free download, and open source code, and can be modified further. Great!

As much as Facebook or any one company wants to try to 'lock users in' to using their software or APIs etc... This is not in the users best interest, only the company. For the user, the best solution is a widely accepted open standard, that anyone can use without relying on a single company.

OpenID Anyone?