My new twitter account
July 20, 2010 //
As some of you know, I deleted my personal twitter account recently. It was great timing as the market conditions for MetaCert (my real work passion) started to blossom after about five years under the radar, meaning I needed more time to focus on what’s most likely to change the world. We’re in fundraising and partnership building mode at present, so there isn’t much else to say.
I will always update the company twitter account and promise never to hire a PR company or get someone else on the team to update it on behalf of the company. I won’t talk at you about the company, but I’m not likely to provide personal updates either, unless of course they’re related to the company. I’m not sure if that’s the right approach, so we’ll see how it goes - let me know if you have an opinion (even if it’s to tell me to stay away after enjoying the quiet time).
If you’re a marketing agency, registrar, hosting provider, security software or anti-malware reseller, get in touch as you’re a potential partner! If you’re a provider of trust in the form of a seal, we have a platform for you to help increase adoption of your own product.
Now… time to upset VeriSign, TRUSTe and others with low-cost products that are more scalable and based on the Open Web 
Pedro says 
chistopher sokari says 
Ruth Tough says 
R Machuk says 
Yes, stay away
July 20th, 2010
thought you’d gone quiet lately
It’s high time that a decent alternative to Verisign cropped up. After the demise of the Thawte Web Of Trust network (following their acquisition) it all became too painful to deal with
July 20th, 2010
@offbeatmammal - please expand as I’d like to learn more from your perspective.
July 21st, 2010
Paul, several quicks…
first, do consider coming back to the wider stream…your discussion/comments via twitter on were informative, and in kind, my bet is you learned smart information on the return…
Secondly, good to know this is not you:
http://notices.irishtimes.com/2946790
Lastly, as a former $VRSN’er, good on them for shelling the trust brand for a mild US$1.2B even though it really only had traction of 90,000 websites (but 250 million impressions each day)…though the math is not linear, imagine what you could pop your company for if you were a tenth that?! That said, the trust brand[s] do little for the customer coming to a site that has been compromised by errant code (think widely utilized third party open source tools like Open Ads/OpenX which has had problems including cross-site scripting holes, cross-site request forgery as well as SQL injection holes, and a file inclusion hole)…trust these days has many layers beyond the ecosystem of ePayments…
Cheers, Jim
September 21st, 2010
Jim - sorry for taking so long to approve your comment - I haven’t checked my blog comments in ages. Now that you’ve been approved once, you will never have to wait again - it will be automated - it’s there to stop spamming.
I’m glad it’s not me in that article too!
September 29th, 2010
cough/splutter… blows dust off old blog post from 2010 … over here! “Tomorrow you’ll be getting something nice from me arrive as an office warming gift, save a bottle for me for when I’m next in town” .. tag-your-it!
May 3rd, 2012
Would love to see you - see if you can find my tag.
May 4th, 2012