4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Webfinger.org - Blaine Cook's demo site for "WebFinger", the much-needed open way to turn email addresses into portable IDs, and actually turn OpenID into a usable technology. GMail addresses all work with WebFinger for now. [via] #
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nelson : OpenID adoption - Some data about logins via various OpenID providers
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deusx : poit: Simple, Single-user OpenID Authentication Server - "It is specifically geared towards people that demand total control of their OpenID identity without depending on another web application framework."
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deusx : Yahoo! OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) - "We're happy to announce support for the OpenID OAuth Hybrid Protocol, which combines OpenID authentication (sign in) with OAuth authorization (access control) in a single interface. The Hybrid Protocol makes it easy for the hundreds of millions
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Linkorama : The Dam Just Broke: - Facebook Opens Up to OpenID
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Linkorama : The open, social web | FactoryCity - I was in Europe for the past week and half, ending up in Leuven, Belgium to speak at the Twiist.be conference. The topic of my talk was “The Open, Social Web.”
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deusx : Coding Horror: I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened - "The important thing to take away from this, if you're a programmer working on an application that stores user credentials, is to get the hell out of the business of storing user credentials! As we've seen today, the world is full of stupid
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Rod Begbie : Plaxo's Personal Card: Introducing Two-Click Signup, an initiative to improve the user experience of OpenID; first test now live with Google - This is good: The underlying goodness of OpenID, used in a way which completely hides itself from the user. [via] #
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Richard Rutter : OpenID and OAuth Flow: Playing with UX - Good comparisons with Facebook Connect.
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deusx : SitePoint » The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID - "Google and Yahoo! (and likely Microsoft to follow) are ultimately competing with one another to become the branded single sign-on solution for the web. The good news for users is that by using the same underlying technology, most relying parties wil
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Richard Rutter : Yahoo OpenID fails woefully in usability testing - Sad but not exactly unexpected – I get confused with Yahoo’s implementation and I’m an avid OpenID consumer.
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Simon Willison : Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research - Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research. Extremely valuable research, conducted with a group of typical Yahoo! users. OpenIDs usability remains bad, and if we don’t get it right soon something centralised like Facebook Connect will take over and the Web will
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research - Spoiler: OpenID usability SUCKS MASSIVE DONKEY COCKS IN HELL FOREVER. The mental model is completely broken. Its one use that I can see: an open backend for "Login to this site with your foo.com account" style buttons [via] #
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20 month ago
philgyford : About The DiSo Project : DiSo Project - Building social networking tools using open tools and standards, starting with WordPress. Not enough there for me to quite "get" it yet. (via Oblomovka)
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23 month ago
deusx : 5 reasons I won't be getting on the open id train - Warpspire - "My problem is how OpenID full on assaults user experience."
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24 month ago
deusx : Ma.gnolia: OpenID to Save Anti-Spam, Anti-Spam to Save OpenID - ReadWriteWeb - "Cutting-edge social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia stopped issuing new user credentials last night and now requires new users to create a Ma.gnolia account using an OpenID from somewhere else."
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo join the OpenID Foundation - holy cow, that's some mighty big guns
nelson : OpenID, the big day - All the big players join. Congratulations!
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26 month ago
Simon Willison : Interview: Simon Willison on OpenID - Interview: Simon Willison on OpenID. Christian Heilmann interviewed me for the YDN blog.
deusx : Interview: Simon Willison on OpenID (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) - "I'd like this not for authentication purposes but to let me "prove" my ownership of those profiles to other sites - I envisage all sorts of interesting mashups in the future based on users using OpenID to prove who they are on many differe
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26 month ago
deusx : Yahoo! to Provide OpenID - Will It Take the Next Step? - "Have you seen the way that Basecamp and Ma.gnolia allow users to associate an OpenID with their in-house accounts?" Yup, I sure have.
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26 month ago
deusx : Yahoo! OpenID - Yahoo! Supports OpenID 2.0 - "With OpenID and Yahoo! you don't need to have an identity management server. Simply tap into the millions of Yahoo! users who already have a Yahoo! ID and password."
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26 month ago
Simon Willison : openid.yahoo.com - openid.yahoo.com. Yahoo!’s human readable guide to OpenID, complete with tour. It looks like they’re relying on the “sign-in seal” to protect against phishing.
deusx : Yahoo! meets OpenID - "Log in to web sites with your Yahoo! account"
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! OpenID - Yahoo embraces OpenID, acting as a identity provider for now, and promising consumption to come. Unfortunately, it uses the new OpenID 2.0 spec, so I don't know of a single site where you can use it yet, but hey! It's a start. #
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27 month ago
deusx : twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter - "twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter"
Simon Willison : twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter - twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter. Brilliant proof of concept by Ian McKellar: an OpenID provider that authenticates you by sending you a Twitter direct message. [via]
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27 month ago
Linkorama : URLs are people too - Elizabeth Churchill and Ben Gross looked into this and found out that people find it easier to remember passwords than usernames, because they use the same passwords everywhere, and they end up with multiple different email accounts to handle the problem
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Omnidirectional (or public, or broadcast) identity - The idea is that your identity, or identity in general, can have different audiences. An omnidirectional identifier is something you use for being recognized by everybody. So if you go to the Verisign website, using HTTPS, their certificate declares their
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28 month ago
nelson : Blogger OpenID - Ryan implements Google's first OpenID product!
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Security and Privacy in Estonia - great resource, including on OpenID implementation
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