sxip announces public beta of identity management tool, sxore
In our very first Talking with Talis podcast, I spoke with Dick Hardt of Canadian company, sxip Identity.
We spoke about ‘Identity 2.0′, the importance of reliable identification - and defensible privacy - in the online world, and about one tool that sxip were developing to demonstrate some of their ideas, and to combat comment spam on blogs in the process.
This tool, sxore, has just been released as a beta plugin for WordPress.
We don’t use WordPress at Talis, but all the tech journalists I know seem to, so maybe Charles Arthur, David Tebbutt, or one of the others could give it a whirl, let me know if it works and, if it’s as good as my conversation with Dick suggested it could be, write nice things about it?
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February 21st, 2006 at 11:17 am
I would use it, except that I use the excellent Spam Karma (www.unknowngenius.com) which kills more than 99.99% of comment spam while letting the good bacteria thrive.
That said, I’m a sucker for a download..
March 5th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
It’s a funny thing isn’t it?
Trust, I mean.
I trust you and you trust Dick. But I’m wondering whether I trust Dick to host my identity more than, say, Verisign, Thawte or Barclays Bank, for example.
Still mulling.
March 20th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
the plugin could be very interesting. However they break a cardnal rule of plugin authors. “First, do no harm”. (ok, so we stole our cardinal rule.)
I installed the plugin, added my sxore ID and clicked the “whoopie button”. The next thing I know, it’s spewing SQL errors and has erased all my technorati tags from all my posts.
It is truly arrogant of plugin authors to assume that either theirs is the only plugin running or that theirs is somehow more important than the others. Apparently the authors of the plugin do not bother to check and see if the “tags” keyword is already in use. Better yet, I bet “sxore_tags” is not in use anywhere, why not use that?
Anyhow, once I finish auditing the code and fixing their problems, I’ll probably re-enable it. Too back because I just blogged Dick’s Identity 2.0 presentation and it would have been cool to follow that up with the news that I support sxore. (Instead of a copy of this screed which will probably be my next post.)
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