Category Archives: Social Media

Published:
April 17, 2008 – 11:16 pm
Author:
By Dave

Using the PayPal/Verisign Security Key with OpenID for Two-Factor Authentication 14

As soon as I heard PayPal would be offering a $5 Security Key for additional security while logging in, I jumped on it. A few days later, it arrived in the mail. It’s a great idea, but I decided that carrying a little secure key that generates special numbers for the 3 times a month I login to PayPal just wasn’t worth it. For the uninitiated, two-factor authentication is when two separate methods are used to verify an identity. For example, a thumbprint and a codeword, or a eye scan and a smart card. The most useful in my and many other’s opinion is a One Time password token, like the Paypal/Verisign security key. This device, which is meant to be carried with you at all times (think, belongs on your keychain, and you keep it in your pocket like a key) generates a series of numbers which depend on….

Categories: Hardware,Security,Social Media

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Published:
April 10, 2008 – 9:24 am
Author:
By Dave

Using Twitter as a Feed Reader 5

Twitter is a great social tool – halfway between an Instant Messaging client and e-mail. You can leave messages for people publicly or privately, and you can even import RSS feeds into your own twitter stream. It has blog integration in that you can have your blog put every post you make into your Twitter stream (much like this one will be posted to my twitter stream). At first I thought the goal was to get as many people to follow you as you can. Then I read this post from Scobleizer that basically says: it’s not who follows you but who you follow. After mulling over this I realized it does make sense… I realize I’m not going to be as popular as some of the heavyweights on Twitter, and that really shouldn’t be your goal. My personal goal on twitter is to be connected with others, see whats….

Categories: Other Technology,Social Media,Software

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