http://chris.pirillo.com/your-passport/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:37:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://chris.pirillo.com/your-passport/comment-page-1/#comment-1833 Anonymous Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:21:23 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2002/04/05/your-passport/#comment-1833 "mozilla" Isn't that some sort of cheese? “mozilla”
Isn't that some sort of cheese?

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/your-passport/comment-page-1/#comment-1832 Anonymous Fri, 05 Apr 2002 21:11:00 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2002/04/05/your-passport/#comment-1832 Given Yahoo's current BS about pulling my phone number and mail address from ONE order I placed with a Yahoo store over a year ago, then putting it on their spam list under my Yahoo ID.... It'll be a cold day in hell before I give out my real contact info to any online site in the future. Amazon's got it, Yahoo (gulp) has it, a few other online vendors have it, but you know what? Yahoo has hurt other Internet businesses by doing what they did - I am reconsidering any online purchase I make, esp. with the big boys (Ironically, I'm less concerned with the smaller guys). Which means I'll probably never, ever, ever post any of my private info through .net or Passport if I can help it. Unless of course eBay decides to pull a Yahoo! and give their increasing partners over at Passport all my private eBay and Billpoint info. Sigh.... Given Yahoo's current BS about pulling my phone number and mail address from ONE order I placed with a Yahoo store over a year ago, then putting it on their spam list under my Yahoo ID….
It'll be a cold day in hell before I give out my real contact info to any online site in the future. Amazon's got it, Yahoo (gulp) has it, a few other online vendors have it, but you know what? Yahoo has hurt other Internet businesses by doing what they did – I am reconsidering any online purchase I make, esp. with the big boys (Ironically, I'm less concerned with the smaller guys).
Which means I'll probably never, ever, ever post any of my private info through .net or Passport if I can help it.
Unless of course eBay decides to pull a Yahoo! and give their increasing partners over at Passport all my private eBay and Billpoint info.
Sigh….

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/your-passport/comment-page-1/#comment-1831 Anonymous Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:16:45 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2002/04/05/your-passport/#comment-1831 “but what have AOL, Netscape done lately to improve the online experience for consumers” <cough>mozilla</cough> “but what have AOL, Netscape done lately to improve the online experience for consumers”
<cough>mozilla</cough>

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/your-passport/comment-page-1/#comment-1830 Anonymous Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:02:52 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2002/04/05/your-passport/#comment-1830 Absolutely. And single sign on is a great idea. And wouldn't it be nice if Passport used an open wire protocol like they said .NET Myservices was going to. Instead, they have merely token support for non MS platforms that is essentially unuseable unless you have su access to your webspace. So that locks out 30-40% of all the websites out there. If it was actually using SOAP, then I could play with PHP or Perl. But as long as it's C++ and Apache mods I'm stuck. IMHO, if they want Passport to be a real success, they need to be much more inclusive with people running web sites on non MS platforms. They did a pretty god job about getting the Frontpage extensions installed everywhere. It's time to do it again. Absolutely. And single sign on is a great idea. And wouldn't it be nice if Passport used an open wire protocol like they said .NET Myservices was going to. Instead, they have merely token support for non MS platforms that is essentially unuseable unless you have su access to your webspace. So that locks out 30-40% of all the websites out there. If it was actually using SOAP, then I could play with PHP or Perl. But as long as it's C++ and Apache mods I'm stuck.
IMHO, if they want Passport to be a real success, they need to be much more inclusive with people running web sites on non MS platforms. They did a pretty god job about getting the Frontpage extensions installed everywhere. It's time to do it again.

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