news.cnet.com - 12/3/2008
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With all the buzz about Facebook Connect this week, it's worth asking the question: Whatever happened to OpenID ?
The universal log-in standard was created in 2005 by Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal, while he was working at blog software company Six Apart . (Fitzpatrick now works ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
We're pleased to share that Google Friend Connect
is now available in beta to any webmaster looking...
to add a "dash of social" to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few ...
(more)
Official Google Blog: Google Friend Connect: now available
blog.facebook.com - 12/4/2008
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blog.facebook.com —
Over the summer we announced an extension of
Facebook Platform called Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect makes it...
easier for you to take your online identity with you all over the Web, share what you do online with your friends and stay updated on ...
(more)
Facebook Across the Web
valleywag.com - 12/5/2008
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valleywag.com —
So much for Silicon Valley's latest get-rich-quick scheme.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has cancelled a plan to...
let employees cash out their shares early. In August, before the markets started to melt down and with Facebook worth $15 billion on ...
(more)
Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]
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Will OpenID Lose to Facebook Connect?
SocialTimes.com —
... It was an inevitable that a company would come along an release a standard for single sign on that had the financial backing to go build strong partnerships and more importantly, mainstream buzz. Yesterday Caroline McCarthy highlighted some of the challenges facing OpenID and I have to say the battle between Facebook and the open standards community is about to get pretty fierce. ...
Facebook Connect vs OpenID: The Battle Begins
All Facebook —
... It was an inevitable that a company would come along an release a standard for single sign on that had the financial backing to go build strong partnerships and more importantly, mainstream buzz. Yesterday Caroline McCarthy highlighted some of the challenges facing OpenID and I have to say the battle between Facebook and the open standards community is about to get pretty fierce. ...
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socialtimes.com 12/3/2008 — It was an inevitable that a company would come along an release a standard for single sign on that had the financial backing to go build strong partnerships and more importantly, mainstream buzz. Yesterday Caroline McCarthy highlighted some of the ...
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Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, the company has announced. The move is a ringing endorsement of OpenID , which already has the corporate backing of Google, Microsoft, IBM, PayPal and other web heavyweights.
In a blog post ...
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radar.oreilly.com 12/4/2008 — Google Chrome did a smart thing: Less. They unified the search box and address bar, since that's what people do anyway. That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that's as important to an average web user as where they're going: Who they ...
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livejournal.com 1/7/2009 — What is OpenID? LiveJournal.com supports the OpenID distributed identity system, letting you bring your LiveJournal.com identity to other sites, and letting non-LiveJournal.com users bring their identity here. After all, not everybody uses the same ...
OpenID Announces Election Results and New Community Board Members
centernetworks.com 12/30/2008 —
The OpenID Foundation named the winners in the community board elections. Marshall Kirkpatrick has a good post on the issues that voters had to think about as they cast their votes.
Elected to serve two-year terms: Snorri Giorgetti, Nat ...
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Technology 12/4/2008
Google's YouTube may be a fun Web site to visit but the company hopes to make it a little less, ah-hmm, titillating. The company this week announced new rules to better control sexually suggestive content on its popular video-sharing site. Only users ...
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