Posts with keyword: discovery

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On Names and Heterarchy

Fri Apr 4 14:55:00 2014

Heterarchical (non-hierarchical) naming systems are vital if we are to avoid the pitfalls and dangers of surrendering our rights and our privacy to a tyranny of connected computers and devices that intermediate our lives at every level based on centralized authority. This post explores names and alternatives to names, including the use of bitcoin as a distributed directory that is immune from the problems that hierarchical solutions impose.
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Discovery and QR Codes

Mon May 20 09:59:00 2013

SquareTag isn't a QR code play. It's a personal cloud play. We just happen to use QR codes. QR Codes provide a way for humans to easily discover the cloud associated with a thing, and interact with it, from a mobile device.
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Discovery: Webfinger and OpenID Connect

Tue Nov 2 15:23:00 2010

I'm sitting in a session on webfinger, OpenID Connect, and discovery session. Discovery is a the process of turning a small piece of information (like a user ID) into the URLs and APIs needed to service some specific request. For example, say I tell you my email address is windley@gmail.com, how do you find my profile? Of course, as long as we're talking about one site, like Google, we can just hard code that translation. But how can the discovery problem be generalized? That's the goal of Webfinger: WebFinger is about making email addresses more valuable, by letting people
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