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Comment on LinkedIn should launch LinkedIn Connect by Dave Bergschneider

Dave Bergschneider — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:23:46 +0000

In complete agreement with a LinkedIn identity sign-on however I prefer the twitter Oauth more forthan the facebook one. Reason being, is facebook application approval simply looks intimidating and as if the “application” will have full access even though it states public information. The whole wording of application is scary too because the end-user often things of applications as being like a browser toolbar or some other useless app on their computer they don’t need or want. Same applies to facebook.

Comment on LinkedIn should launch LinkedIn Connect by Shannon Clark

Shannon Clark — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:58:17 +0000

Chris,

My thought is that LinkedIn should launch this as an identity service & by default and in most cases only share what is already PUBLIC on LinkedIn when LinkedIn would be used as an Oauth authentication.

But I would also really like LinkedIn to then also look at offering, with the user’s consent, to allow some services deeper integration & data access. This could, for example, enable real serious syncing across social networks & devices – allowing me to have my LinkedIn contacts (what they share with me already) synced to my mobile phone & into whatever CRM system I might choose to use (which could be Salesforce, could be another SaaS service, could be an iPhone/iPad application or an Android app)

The point is that I think Facebook isn’t the only game in town – or doesn’t have to be and that LinkedIn is a more natural fit – but they would have to act quickly as they have very few developer relationships (and have soured many via past slowness to work with outside developers). At the moment Facebook is adding literally over 100,000 and counting sites external to Facebook who are integrating with Facebook via a wide range of facebook widgets (Like buttons, authentication and more). Twitter has a a number of sites and applications that use Twitter authentication but mostly directly for Twitter related purposes (less often to find folks who follow you/whom you follow on Twitter on some new service) and Yahoo & Google who both have very solid OpenID services have somewhat diminished momentum at the moment (and there are dozens of other options). Plus “Oauth” and “OpenID” while related aren’t precisely the same thing.

Anyway as I said, it was a fairly simple thought this afternoon – if I get a chance to talk with folks at LinkedIn sometime I’ll ask them about it…

Comment on LinkedIn should launch LinkedIn Connect by Christopher S. Rollyson

Christopher S. Rollyson — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:53:20 +0000

Shannon, intriguing idea, and a totally natural one. I’ll qualify my remarks by saying that I work with very conservative enterprise execs, not startup leaders so much. The former are pretty uncomfortable with perceived loss of privacy or control, and they usually don’t understand the nuances of single sign-on, inheritance, etc. LinkedIn is struggling to get them to have more value-added interaction ON the site, so it would IMO be a potential distraction to enable off-site interaction. That said, I could see them enabling a quasi-private network of trusted partners, but it would have to smell *very* different than, say, Facebook Connect or Google FriendConnect. I’d be surprised if it weren’t in the pipeline somewhere.

Comment on Coffee in San Francisco – my current favorites by Billion dollar ideas for the next decade « Searching for the Moon

Billion dollar ideas for the next decade « Searching for the Moon — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:55:48 +0000

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Comment on Diet Coke, “Live Positively” and subtle branding problems by Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:59:38 +0000

‘Live Positively’ refers to the Coca-Cola business sustainability / corporate social responsibility commitment. Have a read of the below.

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/pdf/2008-2009_sustainability_review.pdf

Hope that helps!

Comment on Pushing the limits of the iPad – complaints with answers by Shannon Clark

Shannon Clark — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:35:58 +0000

John, thanks for the comment – in terms of connecting via wifi to get photos (via an Eye-Fi enabled camera or the like) how does that work? Bluetooth might allow for video streaming not just the moving of files – not sure if that would also be possible over wifi – but in any case it is good to know that it might be another option.

I suspect that inserting images into blog editors will smooth out as app developers get better with the iPad.

Comment on Pushing the limits of the iPad – complaints with answers by John Painter

John Painter — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:31:49 +0000

In terms of getting photos on the iPad, Mover is a great app,and what I’ve been using and aside from BT just using a wifi enabled SD card in your camera will work fine too. You can also transfer video from your iPhone via wifi to your iPad.

In terms of multiple tasking, an interesting term, I am typing now listening to iTunes nd heard the “ping” that I have a new email. Of course when I press my home button read my email, I press my home button then open Safari exactly where I left off typing a response.

There are other issues withnthe iPad, such as challenges inserting images into blog editors with out resorting to typing in HTML, etc. But that’s pushing the iPad into laptop territory.

Comment on Diet Coke, “Live Positively” and subtle branding problems by Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:02:07 +0000

I’m a college student at IUPUI and today I went to the vending machine to get a coke and out popped a bottle that had a t-shirt and another $1.25 for a real coke. Made my day, but the t-shirt says trashtalker on the front and the back has a recycling logo with a coke bottle in the middle and the “livepostively.com” web address. Pretty cool marketing idea.

Comment on Creating on the iPad or a few million dollar ideas by What do you actually use your computers to do? « Searching for the Moon

What do you actually use your computers to do? « Searching for the Moon — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:06:57 +0000

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Comment on Why 2010 is a great year for print by Shannon Clark

Shannon Clark — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:50:06 +0000

For a real example of microscale newspapers, if you live in the UK check out http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/ – will print small scale newspapers at prices starting at 35 pounds – very nice model and I hope one which inspires other printers to try this around the globe