Tag: openid

  • Google Wave In Action

    At their IO conference this week, Google unveiled their new communications platform Google Wave. It supposedly combines multiple forms of communication – namely email and IM, into a collaborative communications suite. There’s been HUGE buzz on this lately, and Ben Parr of Mashable has posted a good Google Wave guide. I think Google Wave does…

  • More shakeups at Yahoo! – yHaus Axed

    Things seem to be seriously shaking up over at Yahoo! lately. In addition to a 45 Billion hostile takeover bid from Microsoft, I just heard via Portfolio.com that Yahoo!’s entire design innovation team was fired, en masse. The whole team that focused on next-gen design is gone. It seems like Yahoo!, amidst increased operation costs…

  • Yahoo soaring on $45 BILLION MSFT bid!

    Real quick.. what’s been going on with Yahoo! lately?! This is insane! Quick wrapup of the last few days for Yahoo!…. Yahoo! starts supporting the fantastic OpenID unified login protocol- huge move of support for the project. Yahoo! tries to buy Maven Networks for  a cool 150 Million. And finally, the big hitter… Microsoft bids…

  • Yahoo adopts OpenID, critical mass may have been reached.

    No matter how cool or innovative a particular new technology is, without the critical big business adoption process, it’s usually doomed. We’re in the midst of seeing this with Joost, as they can’t sign the big content deals with major providers. We’re NOT, however, seeing this doom with OpenID – it seems to be doing…