this sounds like a good move to me :)

great work guys - ID has come on leaps and bounds in the last few months

wow - I have seen a lot of posts around book recommendations - almost always I scan the recommendations with a "blah" - almost all these have been added to me amazon wish list - cheers for the recommendations! :)

You would think so - one thing I am not expecting yet is something similar to Google Apps - allowing me to use my own domain name but using gmail as the interface. I think I would move back to Yahoo if that came out - Gmail is pretty stagnant right now and Yahoo's email platform looks the best featured. All that assumes the speed of the interface is quick though <grins>

Thanks :) The previous design had 3 columns as well - but the main post area was very narrow - this layout allows me to write more without filling up the entire front page <grins>

true - the reverse lookup would not work.. that still requires the ability to take the IP address with you which leaves us back with changing the way the internet works at its core. The only way around that would be to have some way of broadcasting your dynamic dns identity rather than your IP address.

hmm weird, mine does too now :) well hoorah anyhow :)

lol - yea the video is bad - very bad marketing in practice :(

the short answer is not right now - I'll give a more detailed answer in the next few posts!

Think I am contradicting myself in this post somewhat - I prefer the ability to message back into the orginal service, and yet I am saying that users would not have to sign up for the various services.

Does that mean friendfeed is better for mainstream users?

I think I end up with the life stream aggregator being integrates at the OS or browser level (ie not a website) and all these services being able to be signed into using openID (which would allow the commenting.