These seatbacks have standard USB jacks. Neat, what happens you plug stuff in to them? they work! Has a live power connection. Here’s me charging my iPod on a flight to LGA. I tried plugging in also the dongle for my wireless mouse. It lit up but didn’t give me mouse control over the cursor. What peripherals have you tried? Other ideas: stupid usb devices – usb reading lights, usb fans, usb desktop fishtanks (wish I’d remembered mine)…
Facebook continues to steamrolelr it’s way to becoming the defacto OS of the social web. With their new launch of applications, facebook is finally opening the door to federate all of our social identities under their umbrella. And it lets us developers build all manner of new social applications – without having to bother with recreating the fundamental plumbing of buddy lists, commenting and messaging etc. – and – (most importantly) lets any 3rd party social app leverage Facebook’s massively growing install base.
But is this how we wanted it to happen?
Walkah has a great post up today [Facebook apps and the importance of Identity 2.0] looking at the issues this creates
The problem here is that we, the users, don’t own our identity on the internet. There are walled gardens and data silos of information about us. Twitter and Facebook both have directory entries – a username and a password – that they use to identify me but there is no correlation that the directory entries match. I can’t verify that they do without giving one system full access to the other to verify that the username on each system actually correspond to the same person. This is where we need user-centric identity. This is “why OpenID”.
James will be leading a workshop on OpenID during the ‘camp’ portion of our E20 event on Tuesday
. Looking forward to the discussion.
I’m super happy that Chris Matthews will be flying in* to present at the next installment of CaseCamp. Chris is the marketing genius behind the Specialized Angel and the Specialized Rider’s Club (Specialized’s super-popular social media and real-world community for cyclists). Looking forward to seeing Chris again and hearing about the Rider’s Club and the whole CaseCamp lineup looks great too.
It’s June 12, you can sign up on the Casecamp wiki. As always, expect a very classy event and, amazingly, it’s free. Here’s the official word from Eli:
Here’s the skinny on the next CaseCamp – just posted live yesterday.
+ NEW VENUE, the Century Room on King. Much more space, great patio!
+ Join the Facebook group AND the wiki
+ Three presentations thus far:
BMW Canada
Specialized: Riders Club (Facebook for cyclists with 11,000 paid
members)
Freshdaily, publisher of BlogTO, Midnight Poutine & Beyond Robson+ Always looking for sponsors. Anyone want to step up? Call, let’s chat! 416-566-2322
+ All 400+ photos from the Istoica booth at the last CaseCamp can be
found at: http://www.istoica.com/collections/casecamp4/+ Looking for proposals for the fourth presentation. There are already a few in, but it would be good to collect more (for this and future events).
* Specialized Angel not included
**Photo of Angel + Chris by karstensrage