Archive - Aug 04 - 2008

For all you Winamp junkies, Winamp launched a new blog this month: http://blog.winamp.com. They're going to highlight developments and contributions from the Winamp community. They've got a great community and I'm sure it will quickly become an impressive list of stuff that you can use with your Winamp media player. Client updates and tutorials are also going to be a big part of the discussion.

just wanted to clarify a few things regarding the Vidoop ImageShield integration for AOL/AIM OpenID users:

• All Vidoop ImageShield Passwords are stored in AOL. No information about user is shared with Vidoop.
• The Vidoop ImageShield is used as a 1st factor login credential, unlike Verisign VIP Token, which is a 2nd factor login credential.
• At this time no image ads are used in the Vidoop ImageShield.

AOL today announced three new iPhone OS applications: AIM, the leading instant messaging service; AOL Radio, the most popular online radio service and recent recipient of an Apple Design Award; and Truveo, the leading video search engine are available as free downloads from the Apple App Store beginning today.

This is a followup to my earlier blog with the same title (Vidoop ImageShield for AOL OpenID Users ?). Yesterday we opened up our private beta as a public beta for all AOL/AIM users that use their AOL OpenID to login to any 3rd party websites that supports OpenID (Relying Parties). To try it out just go to any OpenID relying party site and login with your AOL OpenID (openid.aol.com/) . In the OpenID login page you will see an option to add a Vidoop ImageShield Password to your account.

Back on June 24th Eric Goldsmith presented pagetest at the Velocity conference. It was well received and he learned some critical presentation lessons (the most important being not to put up an url for something you're going to demo on the first slide with an audience full of geeks with laptops). See if you can identify the traffic spike from the conference presentation:

Dulles: June 30 2008 - For the past month I have been using a beta version of the Skyfire browser (0.6.0.4503) on my AT&T Tilt (Windows Mobile 6). When my Tilt is connected to either WiFi or 3G, Skyfire is very good. Skyfire displays the full web page - but on the Tilt, most of the page is too small to read. But once I click on a section of the page to read, Skyfire brings up the section with clear, readable text and images are cleanly displayed. While connected to AT&T's 3G in my backyard, I was able to surf the web fairly well for an hour including reading blogs and viewing videos.

Shamelessly copied the title from Eran's blog post on OAuth Summit - hope he doesn't mind. :-)

So the OAuth Summit finally happened yesterday at the Yahoo! campus in Santa Clara, CA. It was great meeting with a lot of other folks that have been working on OAuth for a while now from different companies and organizations.

Dulles: June 25, 2008 - Yesterday morning Nokia announced the creation of the Symbian Foundation. Nokia will purchase the remaining 52% of Symbian shares and donate the source code to the open source community through the Symbian Foundation. In 2007 there were 77 million Symbian smartphones sold worldwide dominating the smartphone market. Initial reports indicate the first handsets based on open source Symbian will appear in early 2010.