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I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• March 26th, 2007

  Netscape now an OpenID consumer

  Netscape’s OpenID support is live. This release also greatly simplifies the signup process by removing the captcha and the request for other information that was previously required for registration.

• March 23rd, 2007

  Netscape to support OpenID later this year month

  The announcement just went public that, starting on Monday, Netscape.com and My.Netscape will support signup/signin via OpenID, and consequently, AOL screennames (AOL hosts an OpenID for each registered screenname). I’ve used the OpenID registration/signin process in our QA environment, and it is slick. Kudos to Blaine and Trey on this awesome new feature. P.S. I [...]

• March 8th, 2007

  My My.Netscape

  Since everybody who’s anybody is doing it, here’s my My Netscape (click image below for full screenshot):

• March 5th, 2007

  The Six Million Dollar Homepage

  My.Netscape: a website barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s best personalized homepage. My.Netscape will be that homepage. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster. Da-na-na-na-na-na-na.

• January 17th, 2007

  On deprecating RSS 0.91

  Our decision at Netscape to stop hosting the DTD for RSS 0.91 has inspired some healthy discussion around the Web on the topics of RSS and DTDs. Since I was speaking for Netscape in the official blog, I wanted to lay out my personal thoughts on the matter. However, as is normally the case, the [...]

• January 16th, 2007

  Netscape and RSS DTDs

  We’ve resolved the missing RSS DTD situation at Netscape, but the file won’t be around forever. Read my post at the Netscape blog to get the full details regarding the availabilities of the DTDs for RSS 0.9 and 0.91.

• January 14th, 2007

  Our bad

  According to this Slashdot post, my.netscape.com was hosting a DTD file critical for users of RSS 0.91 feeds, but when we closed My Netscape for a much needed redesign, the file got lost in the shuffle. (Why an RSS DTD file was being hosted under the my.netscape.com subdomain is anybody’s guess…) We should have it [...]