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> We use Twitter for identity, so creating a connection to Twitter is part of the setup process.

That must be as far from "blogging like it's 1999" one will ever get. :-/

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Reminds me of the "frozen in time" NBA Jam site ... with Google analytics.

Do you mean the SpaceJam website?

http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

I go here every now and then. Not sure why.

Oops, yeah that one.

I see "frozen in time" Omniture (Adobe) analytics tags, but no Google.

Strange, I remember it being there just a few months ago when someone posted it.

Beats asking for a password over HTTP and storing it as plaintext, at least.

I'd rather do that than risk my identity being compromised in a place like Iran where my life is at stake if I speak out against the government..

I understand, but maybe if you're blogging for the purpose of political dissidence you could look elsewhere? Home-grown authentication adds a lot of overhead to web apps, so it makes sense to hand that off to one or more standardized identity management systems.

It's better to let them them leak my throwaway email and 9IB2?iDnDaFt0cf6jwXQp_ rather than accessing my tweets, or even my twitter id.

Implying Twitter won't just hand it over to governments.

"Governments" aren't anywhere near the complete scope of risk you bring on yourself by storing passwords badly.

We've been doing passwords on the web since before 1999 and we weren't storing them in plaintext even then. I bet there is a proven authentication framework they could use in this project.

https was there in 1999 too but luckily we must use the current one, which is more secure.

Clarus the Dogcow favicon is pretty 1999

an anti-aliased clarus the dogcow... not very 1999...

moof!

..and the fact that no one called it blogging in 1999.

http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/whatIsScriptingNews

"My name is Dave Winer. Scripting News is my weblog, started on April 1, 1997. It's the longest continuously running weblog on the Internet."

Sure, that's when the term was coined, but no one talked about having blogs in 1999. Words I did hear it called back then are "personal website", "finger", or "zine".

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