Tag: Google

  • Cloud based services – the future of the Internet

    Fred Wilson has a response today to Eric Schmidt’s declaration in Edinburgh that Google+ is an “identity service”. He asks and answers his own question. “whom Google built this service for? You or them. And the answer to why you need to use your real name in the service is because they need you to.”…

  • Google Books enables Embedding

    Here is a book I wrote in 1988 for Penguin. It is available free on Google books. And as of today I can embed it in a web page. With the recent rise to prominence in the UK of the BNP, it may be an interesting read again. At the time I used a non-de-plume…

  • OpenID and Data Portability

    Nicolas Popp – a leading advocate of Open Identity and data solutions – posted on his VeriSign blog today following the rather heated discussions that have ensued since Google announced its Friend Connect product recently. Nico’s employer – VeriSign – along with Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, AOL and others, is a member of the board of…