May 2008
6 posts
Problems with OpenID
I was considering implementing OpenID for my web apps, but then I saw this review of all the potential problems with it. The article is biased, and some of the arguments aren’t particularly strong, so here’s a short list of the reasons why OpenID is not for me: Because an attacker knows the url of your login page, he can potentially act as a man-in-the-middle and phish your...
Scaling Twitter, and the Friend-Follower
On yonder Twitter Developer Blog, al3x points us to his favorite explanation of why scaling Twitter is so difficult. It’s a great read, and it goes into fairly accessible detail about the problems involved in scaling a message-intensive social network. As I understand it, you can either duplicate messages so that each follower has a copy (cheap lookup, massive storage) or you store one copy...
“Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States...”
– Blind Win Court Ruling on U.S. Currency We saw a guy in the Times Square subway station on Friday night, holding up a five dollar bill and yelling “How much is this? Can anybody tell me how much money this is?!?”
Gold Farmers
From the We Make Money Not Art interview with Ge Jin, director of a documentary of “gold farming” in China Is gold farming regarded differently in China than it is in the USA, Europe or Japan for example? Is the practice seen as more acceptable by the public and the government? How much does China try to tax and regulate the business? “Culturally, real money trade is indeed...
