1 month ago
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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5 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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9 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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10 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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11 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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11 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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12 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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12 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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12 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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12 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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12 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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12 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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13 month ago
nelson : Blogger OpenID - Ryan implements Google's first OpenID product!
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13 month ago
Linkorama : Security and Privacy in Estonia - great resource, including on OpenID implementation
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13 month ago
wearehugh : Blogger in Draft: New feature: OpenID commenting
Simon Willison : Blogger: OpenID commenting - Blogger: OpenID commenting. I may be wrong, but I think this is the first Google property to support OpenID in any way. [via]
factoryjoe : Blogger in Draft: New feature: OpenID commenting - Holy crap! Finally! OpenID in Blogger! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: blogger, openid, commenting
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14 month ago
deusx : hCard for OpenID Simple Registration and Attribute Exchange | FactoryCity - I've kinda wondered why OpenID didn't just allow for scanning a page served up at the identity URL for hCard and other microformats.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : We Are Opening the Social Graph - An open social graph is just as important as an open identity.
Simon Willison : Six Apart: We Are Opening the Social Graph - Six Apart: We Are Opening the Social Graph. Six Apart put their cards on the table with respect to the social graph problem—focusing on OpenID, XFN and FOAF as enabling technologies. Be sure to watch the screencast demo of their new social graph visua
factoryjoe : Six Apart - News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph - Dave details the Six Apart approach to opening up the social graph. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: six apart, portable social networks, social networks, social graph, dave recordon
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17 month ago
deusx : Identity Hub (WebSeitz/wikilog) - "Digital Identity? Source for Universal Inbox? One piece of Open Social Networking Model?"
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Social Graphs and Identity Systems - It’s important, however, to not conflate wide-area identity systems, like Open ID, and social networks–open or not. I believe wide-area identity systems are a pre-requisite to such a network, but an open social network could exist on top of any or man
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : Thoughts on the Social Graph - Thoughts on the Social Graph. I think social network portability will happen within the next year.
Linkorama : Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph - Goal 1: Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as "the" central graph owner.
Andy Baio : Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph - this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience - OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience. Realistic, detailed look at the many usability problems that currently surround OpenID—and a good list of suggested fixes at the end. This is why I’ve been advocating OpenID as a tool for early ad
Jeremy Zawodny : OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience - OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience: OpenID is a usability nightmare... shock! Shocking, I tell you. Heh.
factoryjoe : flow|state: OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience - Some good feedback on challnges with the OpenID user experience. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: openid, usability, design, user experience
Linkorama : OpenID Usability - OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience
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17 month ago
factoryjoe : Disruptive Conversations: Identitude - using your Facebook account for an OpenID identity! - What if you could use your Facebook login as a source for an OpenID identity? Courtesy of a Facebook status update by Aswath Rao, I learned of Identitude, which does exactly that. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
adamrg : Identitude - using your Facebook account for an OpenID identity!
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : Pibb: Lets Get Ready To BarCamp! - BarCampBlock's IRC backchannel is going to be web-accessible. If it works, it'll be a pretty impressive feat! [via] #
factoryjoe : JanRain » Blog Archive » Lets Get Ready To BarCamp! - JanRain is proud to announce it will be a sponsor of BarCampBlock being held this August 18th from 9:00 AM - Midnight, and 19th - 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM at these coordinates 37° 26′ 34 N, 122° 9′ 40 W (the block of 655 High Street, Pal
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