Archive for May, 2007

Effective immediately, Michael Graves will become the interim Chief Executive of JanRain. Previously Graves was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for JanRain. Graves was the founder of Signio, a payment services company purchased by VeriSign in 2000 for $700 million. More recently Graves held the position of Chief Technology Officer of the VIS Division at VeriSign, Inc.

JanRain would like to apologize to all of our early Pibb.com users. We were attempting a nice quiet launch of Pibb with a couple of days where the application was open, but not publicized. Well, we got “outed” on Digg. Vote for us here!

Anyway, apologies to those who offended by some of Digg nations more “colorful” users. We are working now on new tools to filter offensive or abusive content, and they should be ready shortly. I will post a follow up blog post when they are ready.

Apologies and best regards from Team Pibb.

Jason

Pibb puts you in charge of your online communications. Combining the convenience of instant messaging, the familiarity of forums, and power of blogs in one browser window, Pibb allows you to communicate online the way you always wanted to. Start dialogs with friends or entire channels with the click of a button. All communications are automatically and securely stored, no need to worry about accidentally closing a window and losing that important conversation again.

Don’t take our word for it though, use your OpenID account to login to Pibb.com and see what is going on.

With Pibb….

• You can leave secure messages for friends or chat with them instantly, all through your browser
• Messages are delivered in real time, or can be retrieved later, Pibb is always online so you don’t have to be
• New conversations are saved and kept available online for future searches, like email or forum systems
• You can start public or private channels about your favorite subjects and invite your social network to join
• You can create threaded conversations within channels to provide a place for friends and familly to talk about anything
• You can use an existing OpenID to sign in, or create a new one when you register.

The team at Pibb is working every day to improve your experience. If you have any ideas for features or have a support issue please contact us at support@pibb.com or just Pibb us in the ‘Pibb Discussion’ or ‘Support’ channel at Pibb.com

Thanks,
The Pibb Team

A BarCamp is an event with no agenda except to bring the local tech community together to discuss and learn in an open environment. It is an intense ad-hoc gathering with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. BarCampPortland will be held this Friday May 11th and Saturday May 12th at CubeSpace, check out the website for specific times. If you are interested in sharing and learning about what is going on in Portland’s tech community this event is for you. Attendance is free, food is free, and all are welcome. Potential attendees are encouraged to add their name to the BarCampPortland Wiki page.

There will also be a DemoCampPortland which will be held on May 12th in conjunction with BarCampPortland. JanRain’s own Brian Ellin will be showing off Jyte, the OpenID based claim and credibility engine. Other presenters will be showing off their latest wares as well, for a full list of demonstrators please visit the DemoCampPortland site.

The is the first BarCamp for Portland so tell all your friends to spread the word and help make this event a success!

A commenter named “Andrew” had this observation in response to my post yesterday about Sun and their plans to deploy an OpenID server that (only) issues OpenIDs to Sun employees.

But, doesn’t this run into the whole problem of multiple logins? Were this world to develop, I’d have to choose which sites I wanted to use my Sun Employee OpenID, which sites I wanted to use my college student OpenID, which I wanted to use my own personal (domain name) OpenID. Is this what we want?

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Tim Bray’s recent comments about OpenID and Sun’s newly announced plans for deploying OpenID there signal the development of an important step up for the OpenID ecosystem. Now, I’ll allow that there may be OpenID servers out there already that have been spun up as authoritative regarding the employment status of owners of the URLs managed by that server (if you know of any, please leave a comment here pointing to it!). But I think it’s safe to say that Sun is by far the biggest and most prominent company to make assertions like this:

Any OpenIDs authenticated by this OpenID provider are employee of this organization.

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