Entries from August 2007 ↓

One username and password for all the sites that you use!  Wait doesn’t Microsoft do that with Passport?  Yeah, but what if you don’t trust Microsoft?

Hummm….  Well, what do you think about this scheme:  You can choose any authentication provider be it a very establish, trusted company like Verisign or a niche player like www.MyOpenId.com.  And any site that implements the OpenID protocol can use that ID.

This is something I have  been wanting to see for a long time.  Check it out at www.OpenId.net.  Also, there is a wordpress plugin http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

So, expect to see all my sites OpenID enabled soon.

1. Walter Bender met with Carole Wacey of Mouse.org. Mouse works with youth on technology mentoring programs. Children at Mouse.org are already actively engaged in authoring tutorials and videos about the XO and the older children (middle and high school) are interested in mentoring the elementary-school children who would be getting the XOs.

3. Villa Cardal: While anyone can watch videos on YouTube, children with XOs are posting videos. A video shot on an XO, “parto de una vaca (birth of a calf),” was posted by a 10-year-old child who is participating in the Villa Cardal trial in Uruguay (Please see http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=BOzBTGGVWNg).

5. $1 video microscope: A video of Mary Lou’s prototype microscope attachment for the XO video camera is posted on the web (Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI28-IS9AII). In the video, she compares various LCD screens. The microscope, which has ~ 100× magnification, could be useful to analyzing water quality, among other things.