And it's hilarious that this happened two months ago. And since I spotted it on Twitter, I assumed it happened recently.<div><br></div><div>Carry on, carry on.</div><div><br></div><div>Sigh.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ouch... another OpenID provider goes down — and this one even sold people their own domain names...<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/25/freeyourid-gives-up-on-trying-to-monetize-openid/" target="_blank">http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/25/freeyourid-gives-up-on-trying-to-monetize-openid/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>This is particularly interesting given a recent conversation about Author IDs in the academics community, where Geoff Bilder pointed out that people don't "own" domains — they lease them, citing that as an argument against OpenID:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://network.nature.com/people/mfenner/blog/2009/02/17/interview-with-geoffrey-bilder" target="_blank">http://network.nature.com/people/mfenner/blog/2009/02/17/interview-with-geoffrey-bilder</a></div>
<div><a href="http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-a-new-kind-of-reputation-online/" target="_blank">http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-a-new-kind-of-reputation-online/</a><br clear="all">
<br></div><div>Perhaps companies like FreeYourID and Vidoop were simply too early — it certainly seems like there's plenty of value locked up in owning your own data and digital identity, but the value prop just isn't obvious enough to most people... yet.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Open Web Advocate<br><br>Personal: <a href="http://factoryjoe.com">http://factoryjoe.com</a><br>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/chrismessina">http://twitter.com/chrismessina</a><br>
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