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Scott Kveton

Scott Kveton
CEO, Urban Airship, Inc.

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Scott brings 15 years of experience building technology, developing business strategy and leading engineering teams with companies like Amazon.com, Rulespace, JanRain and now Urban Airship. Urban Airship works with thousands of brands using their leading mobile messaging and monetization platform. Scott was the co-founder of the Open Source Lab helping open source projects like Mozilla, Linux, Apache, Drupal grow into mainstream usage. Scott was an active supporter of open web standards having co-founded the OpenID and Open Web Foundations. He currently lives in Portland, OR.

Sessions

2:35pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
A Critical View of OpenID
Web Applications
 Location: Portland 252
Jason Levitt (Spirit.io), Simon Willison (Self employed), Chris Messina (Google), Scott Kveton (Urban Airship, Inc.), Allen Tom (Yahoo! Inc. )
Average rating: **...
(2.93, 15 ratings)
OpenID (openid.net) is a single sign-on solution that has gained a lot of traction in 2008. Putting a critical eye to openid's many deployments, this panel will consider questions such as "how has openid succeeded/failed?," "how have end-users responded to openid?," "is openid safer/more-dangerous than other approaches?" "what are some openid success stories?," and "how could openid be improved?" Read more.
OSCON 2008