Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 9th:
- Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success – By The Numbers (Nicholas Carlson/Silicon Alley Insider) – Very interesting. Seems that MarkZ understands a seriously powerful opportunity in owning identity. Lots of challenges of course, but this is something PayPal had an opportunity to do a while ago, but never pursued though, trust me, it was pointed out to them that they should head in this direction. Too many other distractions and pressure however, once they ended up in the belly of eBay which really screwed up as they had a built-in reputation system. Now eBay isn't the belle of the ball anymore and seems to be rife with fraud from recent news releases, which may be complete bunk, but the trust eBay once had has taken it on the chin over the past couple years. Keep your eye on this one and big "thumbs up" to MarkZ, don't let the suits redirect your instincts on this one. Oh, and get this privacy settings thing right or it will seriously slow your abilities with FB Connect.
- Twisted Nether Wiki compiles a nice list of WoW utilities – Just a bookmark for me and if there happens to be a WoW reader out there… doubtful
- New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth (John Timmer/Ars Technica) – One more reason to NOT share more data than is really necessary ANYWHERE. Use a pseudonym wherever possible and that is just about anywhere, yes, including FB… trust me on that.
