LiveJournal: A Cautionary Tale
SitePoint — ... memory caching system (of which Facebook is largest user), and the growing in popularity OpenID also came out of LiveJournal. It had a huge user base by 2003 standards, and the site had an open API that allowed developer access to user profile data. All the things that make social networks like Facebook and Twitter and platforms like Wordpress so special today, LiveJournal had the foundations of five years ago. ...

OpenID Gets SaaS-y: JanRain Works to Ease OpenID and OAuth Adoption
ReadWriteWeb — OpenID adoption has been lopsided. Getting sites to offer OpenIDs has been relatively popular. Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, and countless others provide OpenID addresses for their users. Even AOL users have an OpenID. Far less popular? Allowing users to access their accounts on those services with an OpenID. But JanRain is hoping to change that with the release of RPX, a new subscription-based service that simplifies implementing OpenID. RPX promises to result in more OpenID login opportunities on the Web - and a revenue stream for JanRain. ...

Mozilla Announces Developer Tools Lab for the Open Web
ReadWriteWeb — The Mozilla Foundation announced this morning that it has hired Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, co-founders of Ajaxian and the Ajax Experience, to run a new Developer Tools Lab aimed to make Open Web development easier and more powerful. The term Open Web refers to a paradigm in which data and users can move easily from one standards-based application to the next, without being hindered by proprietary technology or vendors hording user data. In describing the new R&D; effort, the Foundation said that "everything is on the table, from services to software, and we're ...

Five old-fashioned Web concepts that need to die
Webware.com — Wake up! It's 2008. There are things we've become accustomed to doing and seeing on Web sites for years that really should have vanished by now. Five things come to my mind that are user interface disasters. When I am president I will make sure the Supreme Court outlaws them: 1. Refresh ...

Yahoo usability tests bode ill for OpenID takeup
Betanews — Yahoo usability tests bode ill for OpenID takeup By Angela Gunn , BetaNews October 15, 2008, 5:10 PM The OpenID digital identity management standard's long and winding road to general usage hit a pothole in recent tests by Yahoo, one of the program's most prominent identity service providers. Started in 2005, the service has reported several gains in adoption over the past few months. Most notably, MySpace announced in July that it would be providing OpenID services -- a tremendous increase in potential users of the single-sign-in system. OpenID allows users to winnow down the number of usernames ...

The Future of Web 3.0 According to Yahoo!
ReadWriteWeb — At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and discussed the company's future plans to open up almost everything. "The open source, hacker attitude has been part of our culture for so long; now we're opening up the different pieces," Hughes-Croucher told the packed room yesterday. "We're taking data from across our sites and sharing it." ...

Microsoft Windows Live Supports OpenID
ReadWriteWeb — OpenID - the "free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet" - has rapidly gained traction as a login credential for Web 2.0 apps and sites. Its adoption by more mainstream technology properties, however, has occurred at a slower rate. But all of that could be changing with today's announcement from Microsoft. Anointing OpenID "the de facto standard Web protocol for user authentication," Microsoft has moved to give millions of Windows Live users access to any OpenID-enabled site on the Web by ensuring every Windows Live ID will become an OpenID. ...

PDC 2008: Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider
Webmonkey — Microsoft’s Windows Live service will also become an OpenID provider, the company said Monday. With the announcement, Microsoft has put its full support behind the emerging OpenID standard. What this means is that you’ll soon be able to use your Windows Live account to sign into any site on the web that supports OpenID — sites like Plaxo, Technorati and Ma.gnolia, plus service platforms like LiveJournal, Movable Type and 37Signals. Your Windows Live ID login is what you currently use to sign on to Hotmail, MSN Messenger, Spaces or any of Microsoft’s Live ...

Windows Live supports OpenID; Microsoft
D' Technology Weblog — OpenID - the “free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet” - has rapidly gained traction as a login credential for Web 2.0 apps and sites. Its adoption by more mainstream technology properties, however, has occurred at a slower rate. But all of that could be changing with Microsoft announcement. Anointing OpenID “the de facto standard Web protocol for user authentication,” Microsoft has moved to give millions of Windows Live users access to any OpenID-enabled site on the Web by ensuring every ...

Windows Live ID agora também é um provedor OpenID
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — A Microsoft anunciou ainda ontem que todos os IDs do Windows Live se tornarão OpenIDs, em uma oficialização do seu serviço como um provedor oficial de identidade universal na internet. A novidade poderá acelerar a adoção da iniciativa que, ainda que bem recebida por grandes nomes tecnológicos, tem se expandido bem devagar. A implementação do Windows Live ainda está em fase de testes, mas quem quiser participar, já pode se registrar. Depois, é só ir aqui e configurar um atalho de teste OpenID. Uma vez feito isso, os usuários podem utilizar ...

Google is Now an OpenID Provider
ReadWriteWeb — This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give every Windows Live user an OpenID account, and today, Google announced a very similar plan. Google will allow web services to join a limited test of an API based on the OpenID 2.0 protocol that will give Google Account users the option to sign into websites with their Google credentials and without having to sign up for a new account at those sites. ...

The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID
SitePoint — ... The OpenID website describes the idea like this: “OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience. You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust.” ...

GMail becomes an OpenID provider
Tech Digest — Google has joined Yahoo! and Microsoft in the ranks of being an OpenID provider. Anyone who has a GMail address can now use it to log in to any site that accepts OpenID logins, like Zoho and Plaxo. The list of sites that accept OpenID doesn't include Microsoft, Yahoo! or Google, you might notice, despite the fact that they provide IDs. That's because they've just signed up to the movement as a 'provider', not a 'relying party'. That's a shame, because now that everyone probably has two or three OpenIDs, it'd be nice to have somewhere to use them. The OpenID movement is a ...

Google Offers "OpenID" Single Sign-On with Google Password
AppScout — On Thursday, Google announced that users could now sign on to Web sites using a single sing-on, based on the OpenID principle. The concept is simple enough. Zoho, for example, already allows you to sign in with your user name and password to eliminate the need to remember another username and password. Google's implementation, and the OpenID concept in general, will allow you to unlock a number of Web sites with your saved preferences, and link them to one another. Most of you can stop here. The catch here is that OpenID is a community initiative, and Google apparently ...

Weekly Wrapup: Microsoft Azure, Google Chrome, iPhone Apps, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, Microsoft had two major Web announcements: 1) the release of Azure, a cloud computing OS; and 2) browser-based versions of four Office products. Google was also active this week, releasing the third beta of its new browser Chrome and announcing it will support OpenID. On the trends side, we wrote in-depth analysis pieces on LinkedIn and Hulu, advised you how to use the new Google web search RSS feeds, and more. And this week ReadWriteWeb had our own special announcement: a new product, Jobwire! ...

OpenID Is Here. Too Bad Users Can’t Figure Out How It Works
Webmonkey — Imagine a much friendlier internet, one where you only have to remember one password. A place where it’s easy to keep a tight grip on your personal contact information, deciding which websites have access to it and how much they’re allowed to know about you. This is the internet we are fast approaching, and OpenID is the central piece of technology that will make it possible. Instead of creating a separate user account, each with its own login and password, for each site you visit, OpenID lets you log in to your favorite website using only your e-mail address or a URL — your ...

OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers
Webware.com — OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as Google's effort to create a common application programming interface for developing small applications that can tap into multiple social-networking services is becoming a full-fledged development platform. ...

OpenSocial, Facebook and Microsoft to compete for app developers
Outside the Lines — OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as Google's effort to create a common API for developing small applications with HTML and JavaScript that can tap into data from across multiple social networking services is becoming more of a full-fledged, cloud application development platform. ...

OpenSocial, Facebook and Microsoft to compete for app developers
Webware.com — OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as Google's effort to create a common API for developing small applications with HTML and JavaScript that can tap into data from across multiple social networking services is becoming more of a full-fledged, cloud application development platform. ...

Some Thoughts on Facebook Connect and CitySearch
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... fallout from the turn of the century) especially given all the hype behind decentralized identity solutions like OpenID. I believe Facebook has gotten around this concern in a couple of ways. The first is that Facebook Connect provides concrete benefits of access to a user's mini-feed and thus prime real estate on the user's Facebook profile. Secondly, it allows sites to bootstrap their social networks off of one of the must successful social networking sites in the world. Finally, Facebook's brand doesn't have the "baggage" that other companies that have tried to ...

Mapquest takes another baby step forward
Webware.com — ... Since I'm sick of creating new accounts for every new service I try, I also like that you can log in to the new personalized MapQuest with my OpenID. ...

Six Apart TypePad Connect Beta Holds Promise for All Bloggers
ReadWriteWeb — Today, Six Apart is launching three new features for TypePad: enhanced TypePad profiles, a new commenting system, and TypePad Connect, a no-cost combination of services that promises to make participating in and managing communities easier for bloggers on a variety of platforms - not just those offered by Six Apart. For users familiar with the Six Apart family of products, the profiles will be a welcome step forward from the original TypeKey implementation and the new commenting features offer functionality users have come to expect from commenting systems. But it's TypePad ...

Barack Obama's Change.gov Adds OpenID
ReadWriteWeb — OpenID has had a lot of big supporters, but this week President Elect Barack Obama's Change.gov added the ability to post comments to sections of the website and comment posters can log in with any OpenID account. That's big news and is going to introduce a whole lot of people to the concept of federated identity. Every other major player that has announced support for OpenID has in fact only allowed accounts with their company to be used as an OpenID elsewhere - they have not allowed other OpenIDs to be used to log in to their own sites. That means Barack Obama is cooler than AOL, ...

More open government: Obama transition site Change.gov gets user comments
VentureBeat — Change.gov, President-elect Barack Obama’s web site covering his administration’s transition to the White House, now lets users share their feedback about the U.S. health care system. Since this new page of the site launched yesterday, under the provocative question “What worries you most about the healthcare system in our country?” it has gained well over 2,000 comments. This is a great early step in making government more open — a long-standing promise of Obama’s, and an ideal that I believe needs to be practically integrated ...

Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big question facing the social web depends on the direction ...

The End Of Online Anonymity
ReadWriteWeb — It seems we're approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the "real" world and the "virtual" world to blur. Web 2.0 helped create a world where your identity is revealed in bits and pieces as you share snippets of your life online - a photo here, a Stumble there, a tweet, a Digg, etc. However, the rise of social media is only one of the changes that is busy shaping the new web. Sponsor On tomorrow's web, we're no longer going to be anonymous. ...

Facebook Connect: Scary but good
Webware.com — ... Facebook Connect is a centralized identity service. That's not the only model. OpenID is a federated identity play -- no one owns the database of users, and anyone can set up or use the standard. Functionally these distinctions are important, but asking users to understand them is a losing game. Users just want easy access to sites they like, and they want to trust that the sites they use won't steal their identity or use it in ways that are damaging to them. ...

MySpace, Flock and Vidoop release OpenID for Flock plugin
Download Squad — Filed under: Web services, Open Source, Social Software, BrowsersOpenID is a really great concept. The ability to use a single digital identity across the web and avoid having to sign up for yet another user account is a real productivity boon. More and more high profile sites and services are adopting OpenID, but the project still hasn't gained the traction that many of us think it deserves. This is partially because it still isn't easy to use OpenID -- or even find out if a site supports OpenID -- on all services. MySpace, Flock and Vidoop think they've come ...

MySpace And Vidoop Help Build OpenID Add-On For Flock
TechCrunch — MySpace and provider of authentication and identity management solutions Vidoop have teamed up with Flock to develop an OpenID management addd-on for version 2.0 of the ’social’ browser. Here’s how works: the extension will enable Flock to collect and manage OpenID credentials and use them whenever you browse an OpenID-supported service. It will also automatically alert you if you can use a stored OpenID to log into a website. The plugin, currently in alpha, can be found here. Further details on the IDIB project and OpenID for Flock are also available ...

Memo to OpenID: Keep it simple, please
The Social — ... With all the buzz about Facebook Connect this week, it's worth asking the question: Whatever happened to OpenID? The universal login standard was created in 2005 by Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal, while he was working at blog software company Six Apart. (Fitzpatrick now works at Google; Six Apart ...

Memo to OpenID: Keep it simple, please
Webware.com — ... With all the buzz about Facebook Connect this week, it's worth asking the question: Whatever happened to OpenID? The universal login standard was created in 2005 by Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal, while he was working at blog software company Six Apart. (Fitzpatrick now works at Google; Six Apart has since sold LiveJournal.) It has the support of Yahoo, MySpace (which just helped build an OpenID extension for the Flock browser), and President-elect Barack Obama's Change.gov. Even Google has dipped its proverbial toe in the ...

The OpenID Foundation Needs You
ReadWriteWeb — Do you think that open standards, data portability and questions of online identity are important? We do; we think these issues are the foundation upon which many of the most exciting and important online innovations are being built. That's only going to be more true in the future, so if you'd like to have a say in how it all goes down - now's the time to get involved. The OpenID Foundation is one of the leading organizations in the new standards world and it's having its first ever election of community board members this month. Nominations close Monday and the voting begins on Wednesday. ...

Why Facebook Connect wins
Webware.com — ... Because Facebook Connect is not just a registration system but a marketing channel with a built-in audience of 130 million monthly active users (according to Facebook), this program will crush competing registration systems. One can argue the merits of platforms like OpenID or ...

Top 10 International Products of 2008
ReadWriteWeb — We live in a technologically rich and increasingly Web-savvy world. In this post, we celebrate the World Wide Web by selecting our top 10 international products of 2008. What do we mean by 'international'? We looked for products that were developed outside the U.S., which showed innovation and support for global Web standards. We also tried to choose from a cross-section of countries, although obviously we couldn't cover all the major countries. With so many innovative products to choose from all around the globe, some exceptional non-U.S. products didn't make the cut. So please let us know ...

Weekly Wrapup: Open Social Networks, Education 2.0, Nokia N97, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we took an in-depth look at the emerging world of open social networks. We pondered: which of Facebook Connect and OpenID will be more successful? And we explained why "distributed social networking" is a trend to watch, with projects such as DiSo and OpenSocial. Also this week we examined the latest in online anonymity and education 2.0. On the product side, we began our 'Best Products 2008' series with our selection of the top 10 Semantic Web products of the year. We also told you about some of ...

Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect: Google's Fear of Facebook will be their Undoing
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — A few days ago, the top news story on Techmeme was the fact that Google launched Google Friend Connect and Facebook announced the final version of Facebook Connect within minutes of each other. Reading up on both announcements it seems interesting to note how most of the coverage is about who will win the race to dominate the Web as opposed to what end user value is actually being created by these technologies. It was somewhat depressing until I read Dave Winer's brilliant post Soon it will be time to start over, again which contains the following excerpt ...

Social Climber: MySpace Toolbar For Your Browser
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — MySpace will roll out a feature that allows members to access their profile information through a toolbar that can be placed in the browser. MySpace members will be able to view status information via the toolbar to stay better connected with friends on the network. "It's a toolbar with the social functionality built in," said Amit Kapur, MySpace's COO, speaking at LeWeb 08 conference in Paris, PC World reports. The MySpace toolbar will only function on PCs running Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox browser, but the company is hoping to get a Mac version of the ...

Social Climber: MySpace Toolbar For Your Browser
The Channel Wire — MySpace will roll out a feature that allows members to access their profile information through a toolbar that can be placed in the browser. MySpace members will be able to view status information via the toolbar to stay better connected with friends on the network. "It's a toolbar with the social functionality built in," said Amit Kapur, MySpace's COO, speaking at LeWeb 08 conference in Paris, PC World reports. The MySpace toolbar will only function on PCs running Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox browser, but the company is hoping to get a Mac version of the ...

Five Ways OpenID Can Be Embraced
louisgray.com — By Mona Nomura of Pixel Bits (FriendFeed/Twitter) Attempting to learn OpenID for the upteenth time, I ended right where I started: Confused. So I reached out to the community for help and received tremendous feedback that helped me better understand what OpenID is about. People left thoughtful, thorough comments on how to actually use OpenID and someone even left step by step directions. That made me realize: OpenID is still irrelevant for the average user. However, the discussions held on FriendFeed and my personal blog opened an avenue to great ...

JanRain Offers Distributed Social Options Galore, Interscope Geffen A&M Bites
ReadWriteWeb — It's been quite the month for the world of distributed social networking. Both Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect - two services designed to help user manage a single profile across multiple sites - launched on the same day. Then, MySpace followed in close succession with their MySpaceID offering, another distributed social option built on the Open Stack. In a matter of days, the distributed social space went from nascent to completely confusing. Now, JanRain hopes to alleviate some of that confusion with RPX. Sponsor ...

OpenID Foundation Board of Directors: 17 Candidates Vie For Seven Spots
ReadWriteWeb — Few elements of the "Open Stack" have garnered as much attention - or as much support - as OpenID, a way to use a single digital identity across multiple Web sites. That acceptance led ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick to call the OpenID Foundation "one of the leading organizations in the new standards world." In that same post, Kirkpatrick urged people to participate in the elections for the OpenID Foundation Board of Directors. Now, the time for that participation has come. Sponsor Seventeen individuals have been nominated to ...

Twitter, Facebook, Digg: Can You Join Too Many Networks?
Mashable! — Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success and publisher of Personal Branding Magazine and the Personal Branding Blog. There are literally thousands of social networks on the web right now, but which ones should you join? Many people have spread out their personal brands on too many networks and are now unable to manage their existence on all of them. As the number of social networks grows (more startups) and shrinks (economic downsizing), we must be smarter about which ones we join and which ones we ignore. Today, ...

Dailymotion implements single sign-on with OpenID
901am — Video sharing sire Dailymotion has added support for the OpenID digital identity framework single sign-on and online user-authentication standard. The addition of OpenID support will enable Dailymotion’s users worldwide to consolidate their account with other identities on the Internet. OpenID users can now link their OpenID to an existing Dailymotion account on a one-to-one basis, use their OpenID to initiate and simplify registration on Dailymotion or use their OpenID to log in to a linked Dailymotion account.

Twitter: 33 accounts hacked, including Barack Obama's
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Twitter is discovering that popularity brings attention from the sort of people you don't want attention from: hackers. That's the clear message from the fact that 33 accounts were hacked, using the company's own internal support tools. Yes, that's certainly Monday morning madness. ...

OpenID Gets Explained, Maligned, and Dropped
OStatic blogs — Lots of people talk about the OpenID Web site login solution under development by the OpenID Foundation, but not everyone understands it. A handy new Web site aptly named Open ID Explained launched recently that aims to separate fact from fiction and educate the masses about what this project means in the larger picture of Web site user authentication. Clearly, the project has fans, but not everyone is jumping on the OpenID bandwagon. In fact, some are jumping off. Citing Wikipedia, OpenID Explained claims there are over 27,000 enabled sites, the number will keep ...

OpenID Gets Explained, Maligned, and Dropped [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — Lots of people talk about the OpenID Web site login solution under development by the OpenID Foundation, but not everyone understands it. A handy new Web site aptly named Open ID Explained launched recently that aims to separate fact from fiction and educate the masses about what this project means in the larger picture of Web site user authentication. Clearly, the project has fans, but not everyone is jumping on the OpenID bandwagon. In fact, some are jumping off. Citing Wikipedia, OpenID Explained claims there are over 27,000 enabled sites, the number will keep ...

The Future of Web Apps: 7 Things Companies Must Do to Succeed
Mashable! — Monica O’Brien writes about business and career advice at her blog, Twenty Set. You can also follow her on Twitter. News Flash: Web 2.0 is so over, and nobody has made any money. Large social networking sites have yet to give brands a method of monetizing, and the tired business model of “get funded then get bought by Google” has been a bust for both the Googles and the startups (see Feedburner, YouTube, and DoubleClick). So companies need to do something different, which means that we are on the frontier of a shift in ...

TypePad Connects You Via Google, Yahoo, AOL, Wordpress, Etc.
WebProNews Feed — [image] You Don't Even Have to Know Anything About OpenID Six Apart has made it simple for nearly anyone to sign in to TypePad Connect with other existing accounts via OpenID. If you have an account with Google, Yahoo, Blogger, Vox, LiveJournal, Wordpress.com, or AOL, you can easily sign in. TPC OpenID 2.0 Sign In If you've already tried out our recently launched commenting service via TypePad Connect , you know that we built in very basic support for OpenID sign in from the start," explains Six Apart's David Recordon. "We did this because we know that just as the future of ...

Want Proof OpenID Can Succeed? Just Scroll Down
Wired: Epicenter — Whatever hurdles OpenID has to clear to become a widely-adopted de facto standard, its blueprint for success lies at the bottom of millions of blog posts. OpenID and its companion technologies -- along with similar systems like Facebook Connect -- are in the midst of a whirlwind period of growth. Major sites like Google, Yahoo, MySpace and AOL have all recently embraced OpenID, which allows users to log in and participate on a website without registering and filling out a user profile on the new site. As promising as these technologies are, they suffer from ...

Envisioning the Browser of the Future
Wired: Epicenter — What would a browser look like if the web was all there was? No windows, no unnecessary trappings. Just the web. The line above is a direct quote from Mozilla's Labs team, and the question is the kick-off to the company's first design challenge. Mozilla is asking students to submit their mock-ups of the browser of the future by dreaming up a new, windowless user experience. The top 20 entries will go into a mentorship program where each chosen student will refine and expand upon his or her idea for a month. They'll work directly with Mozilla's UX designers, as well as the ...

Daily Tidbits: PayPal jumps on OpenID bandwagon, joins board
Webware.com — The OpenID Foundation announced Wednesday that it has added PayPal as a corporate member of the Board. Andrew Nash, PayPal's Senior Director of Information Risk Management, joins the current board of members, which is populated by representatives from Google, IBM, and Microsoft, ...

OpenID + OAuth: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
TechCrunch — Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. Too often, when a Website wants to import your contacts from another Web service, it asks for your login and password credentials. OAuth gets around that by sending you back to the original site where you login and authorize the one-time transfer of data. It is much more secure. And now it works with OpenID. So far, this is just a test between Plaxo and Google, where a Plaxo member can invite someone via ...

Google and Plaxo Combine OpenID and OAuth for Improved Usability
ReadWriteWeb — As a concept, OpenID has shown a great deal of potential. But that potential has often been hamstrung by the series of hurdles through which OpenID users have been required to jump in order to use their credentials. When Facebook Connect entered the distributed digital identity fray, those OpenID usability problems came into stark relief. Now, Google and Plaxo have responded with a new workflow for OpenID logins that simplifies the process and improves the usability - by adding OAuth and the Google Contacts API to the mix. Sponsor ...

Google, Plaxo Blend OpenID, OAuth For Secure Federated ID
Google Watch — Remember back in October when Google waved the flag for OpenID, the federated login standard that lets users log into Web sites with the same user name and password? More importantly, the company was accused of perverting OpenID by creating its own flavor of it. Yesterday Google and Plaxo detailed the next step in their federated identity plans with "Hybrid Protocol," combining OpenID federated login with OAuth access authorization and the Google Contacts API for secure import of the user's address book. Simply, Web sites can now ask Google to sign-in a user using their Google ...

Weekly Wrapup: Recommender Systems, Social Media Trends, State of Blog Search, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies, outline 10 ways that social media will change in 2009, look at 8 mobile technologies to watch in 2009-10, review the state of blog search, and more. Also we note the highlights from our Enterprise Channel and Jobwire, ReadWriteWeb's new product which tracks hires in tech and new media. Sponsor The Weekly Wrapup is sponsored by Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5: ...

Facebook Throws its Weight Behind OpenID
Wired: Epicenter — 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 Thursday, Facebook's Mike Schroepfer (formerly of Mozilla), said, "It is our hope that we can take the success of Facebook Connect and work together with the community to build easy-to-use, safe, open and secure distributed identity frameworks for use across the web." Prior to the announcement, Facebook was seen as a sideline ...

5 Reasons Why Facebook + OpenID is Good News
ReadWriteWeb — Facebook has joined the OpenID Foundation, something that many OpenID advocates have hoped would happen for some time. The two systems of logging in to distributed websites, OpenID and Facebook Connect, have been characterized as rivals - OpenID being the high-minded but socially awkward one who doesn't get invited to parties despite being a really good person and Facebook Connect being the rich preppy popular kid from the 80's movie who's a bully but is good at sports. Now they've joined forces, on some level. Cynics immediately said it would make no difference, that their ...

Facebook Opens Up: Lets Developers Access Status Updates, Notes, Links, and Videos
ReadWriteWeb — Facebook announced a major update to its API tonight that will allow developers to read and post status updates, links, and notes to Facebook. In addtion, Facebook now also allows third-party developers to create applications that can upload videos directly to a user's account. The service already had an API for uploading and viewing photos. Sponsor The company also announced that its users now share over 24 million links every month, and that more than 15 million of its users update their status every day. Attacking ...

A Peer-to-Peer Plaxo: Glynx Launches P2P Identity Management
TechCrunch — Glynx, not to be confused with the recently released Ginx, is taking a peer-to-peer approach to identity management and in the process promises to help its users take back control of their online identities. After downloading the Glynx software to either a PC or a Mac, you have a Plaxo-like contact manager for online contacts, email addresses and phone numbers, except there is no central directory. Instead, Glynx has a directory it calls the “Blackpages” that exists spread out on user’s computers. You can look up specific IDs of people you know by ...

Chris Saad on Terms of Service issues: “Clear, jargon-free statements are needed.”
The Next Web — JS-Kit have been in the news recently, with the announcement of a deal with Sun Microsystems to supply JS-Kit comments and other widgets throughout Sun’s properties. Having been slightly underwhelmed by their official press release, I thought I’d catch up with JS-Kit’s Chris Saad in person. Chris is VP of Product Strategy at JS-Kit, and agreed to answer a few questions about the company’s development, and also some related to Data Portability, and Terms of Service (TOS) related to Data Ownership - obviously a hot topic this week. Q: You ...

phpMyID: roll your own OpenID provider
Download Squad — Filed under: Internet, Security, Web services, Open SourceWith more and more web sites and services offering OpenID for authentication, you may want to use your own domain name as an OpenID provider instead of selecting from the wide array of other providers (like Blogger, AOL, Wordpress.com). phpMyID is a pair of PHP files that allow you to easily use your domain name for authentication to OpenID-supporting sites like Sourceforge, Skitch, and Technorati. To use phpMyID (substitute "yourwebsite" with your domain name or website ...

Bad News for OpenID: People Still Using Same Password Everywhere
ReadWriteWeb — A new survey from Gartner Research delivers some bad news regarding our online security practices: two-thirds of U.S. consumers use the same one or two passwords for all the web sites they access. And they like it that way. Although people claim they're concerned about security, they still tend to use unsafe password management techniques rather than exploring new methods - be that new hardware, software, or new authentication frameworks like OpenID. Sponsor Always Use the Same Password? You're Not Alone Gartner's survey of ...

Blogger Gets More Social With Friend Connect Integration
Wired: Epicenter — Google expanded the social networking features of Blogger on Thursday by integrating its Friend Connect technology into the service. Now, anyone with a Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account can log into Blogger and "follow" any Blogger blog. Choosing to follow a Blogger blog effectively adds the author to a user's social network, as they receive activity updates for that blog, and they can see what blogs that author, his friends and their own friends are also following. Friend Connect is Google's open-source system for building connections between social ...

OSLO aims to break down mobile social network barriers
TechCrunch — We’ve had OpenId to make the transport of your ID easier between Web sites. We’ve had initiatives on Data Portability to make it easier for you to move your data around between social networks and other apps. But what we haven’t had yet is a way to allow you to share your location between different mobile social platforms. That’s something that a new, largely European-inspired, initiative hopes to address. The alliance, called OSLO (Open Sharing of Location-based Objects) includes many of the players in mobile social networking and location-based social software. ...

Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Principles, Amazon Public Data, Times Open, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook's controversial new "principles", check out the latest OpenID trends, cover Amazon's public data initiative, analyze Wikipedia's possible future as a development platform, investigate the future of 'touch' apps, and more. Also we cover the highlights from our Enterprise Channel and Jobwire, ReadWriteWeb's new product which tracks hires in tech and new media. Sponsor The Weekly Wrapup is sponsored by Adobe Flash Media ...

SXSW Trip Report: The Search for a More Social Web
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — These are my notes from the The Search for a More Social Web talk by Dave Morin. I had expected this talk to be about lessons learned by Facebook along the way as they've built the site. It actually was more of a product launch keynote and overview of recent launches. There was a brief preamble about the history of communications from carrier pigeons and the postal service to telegrams and computers. Computers have become increasingly social from when they were first connected into a major computer network as ARPANET, followed by the creation of the World Wide Web, then ...

Blubrry Adds OpenID Sign-in
Podcasting News — Podcast production and hosting site Blubrry.com today announced the addition of Open ID sign-in capabilities. Open ID is an open, decentralized standard for “user authentication and access control.” In other words, it allows users to log onto many sites and services with a single digital identity. Blurbrry founder Todd Cochrane explains: “You can now login to Blubrry.com with an OpenID account. Users that already have accounts will be able to associate there [sic] OpenID logins with their existing accounts. We wanted to make Blubrry ...

My Name is Not a URL
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Google Makes Finding Friends on Social Sites Safer, More Secure
Wired: Epicenter — The days of scraping your webmail contacts to find your friends on new social networks are coming to an end. Google Contacts, the system that stores your Gmail address book, now supports the emerging Portable Contacts standard, the company has announced. Portable Contacts is part of the open stack of new identity technologies, including OpenID and OAuth. Now, users can import their Google address book when they join a new social network, but do so in a standardized way that doesn't compromise any of their data beyond what's being requested. One of the ...

MyID.is Now In Public Beta, Aims To Become The Digital Certification Standard
TechCrunch — Digital certification platform MyID.is is taking a crack at offering a way for people to claim their real identity online, in order to be able to prevent ID theft and to verify content they publish on their blogs, social networking accounts, photo & video sharing sites, and so on. Additionally, the site offers (yet another) way to manage your online identity … online and doubles as a certified OpenID provider. The site has been in alpha testing for the past 8 months and as of yesterday in public beta. This is how it works: you register for a MyID.is Certified account ...

Windows Live users can now easily sign up for sites using RPX
Angus Logan's Blog — Hey, Angus Logan here, I'm at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco - there is a great vibe and lots of action. I've been spending time with and learning a ton from some of the open stack crew, Joseph Smarr, David Recordon, and Chris Messina. We've been talking about the technology, adoption, and when Microsoft (we) will roll our preview Open ID and Portable Contacts endpoints into production (nothing to announce right now). Microsoft is a proponent of open standards through our work in the Open ID foundation and the Open Web ...

Chi.mp: An Ambitious Content and Identity Management Platform [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — Despite my best efforts, I can easily get lost on the web. And in doing so, I let some things fall into neglect, like social network identities that I should tend to, or blog content that I should update. It would be really great if I could keep everything in one place. There are sites that try to aggregate ...

Should the Government Control Internet Standards?
ReadWriteWeb — One role of the government is to protect the country and make its citizens feel safe through policy and regulation. But in today's digital era, policy making is moving to the people, and we are witnessing individual corporations - be they for profit or not - getting more involved in Internet standards. A panel of industry experts convened at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco earlier this month, and moderated by ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick, discussed the issues surrounding Internet standards. We've written up our notes below and hope to begin a conversation about whether ...

Roll Your Own Twitter Clone
SitePoint — Everyone’s talking Twitter, right? And there’s Plurk, Jaiku, and Identica—in fact, there’s dozens of new microblogging services popping up every week. If you’re anything like me, you’ve already wondered how easy it would be to make your own—perhaps you’d like to set up a microblog for you and your colleagues to share links and have discussions. Or, perhaps you have a cool idea for a new social network surrounding your favorite topic. Whatever your plans, the good news is that it’s easy to host a ...

Single sign-on service OpenID getting more usage
VentureBeat — After nearly four years of development and prosyletization, social networking technology standard OpenID is beginning to show signs of going more mainstream on the web. The service is live in a number of company web sites and consumer-facing services, from airlines to social networks — and, while it’s too early to tell how well OpenID might do in the future, new numbers from the industry-driven OpenID Foundation indicate more people are logging in through it. For those who aren’t familiar, OpenID makes it easy to sign into a new web site without creating a new username and ...

Demo day at Facebook: First Open Stream products
Webware.com — ... The big news at the end of the event was Facebook's announcement that it's getting very serious about supporting OpenID. You'll soon be able to log in to Facebook using your OpenID credentials. Facebook is also becoming a "relying party," which means that if you're logged in to another OpenID site, like Gmail, when you then go over to Facebook it will see that you're logged in to an authenticated site (GMail) and use those credentials to log you in to Facebook. ...

Demo day at Facebook: First Open Stream products. Plus bonus OpenID announcement.
Webware.com — ... The big news at the end of the event was Facebook's announcement that it's getting very serious about supporting OpenID. You'll soon be able to log in to Facebook using your OpenID credentials. Facebook is also becoming a "relying party," which means that if you're logged in to another OpenID site, like GMail, when you then go over to Facebook it will see that you're logged in to an authenticated site (GMail) and use those credentials to log you in to Facebook. ...

Murphy's Law: Unfolding the Future of the Social Web with OpenID
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — A large part of the Web as we know it today is built around independent communities. Think about it. You have a login for your Twitter account, a login for your Facebook account, a login for your [insert favorite Web site here] account. And while each of these independent entities can play with each other via plugins, coding trickery, or outright hacks... you're still stuck in three separate sandboxes at the end of the day. Does Twitter know what I like on my Facebook page? Can Amazon take a gander at my current interests and suggest related purchases? Do any of these sites know who my ...

Digg (finally) gets Facebook Connect integration
Webware.com — After 10 months of promising that it was on the way, Digg has finally implemented Facebook Connect. In the next few hours Facebook users will be able to log into Digg with their Facebook credentials and use the site as if they had spent the time registering. It will also push their ...

Next09: Video Interview With Chris Messina On The Current State Of OpenID
TechCrunch — The last video interview I did at the Next09 conference in Hamburg that I wanted to feature here on TechCrunch is the conversation I had with mr. Captain Web 2.0 himself, open web advocate Chris Messina. Besides his involvements with Citizen Agency, the DiSo Project and Vidoop, Messina somehow finds the time to also be closely involved with the OpenID Foundation as a board member and persistent evangelist, so we talked about that a little. As a reminder, OpenID is a decentralized, distributed single sign-on method that allows users to log onto many services with the ...

Paid Subscriptions: The Next Great Trend In Online Advertising? [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — As respected online publications such as Salon.com, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal removed all or most of their paid subscription models over the course of the decade, conventional wisdom formed that holding print content intended for a mainstream audience behind a pay wall ...

OpenID comes to Facebook, at last
Webware.com — ... For the past few years, Facebook has been flirting with the possibility of supporting the OpenID login standard, which calls itself "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity" without actually building support for it. ...

OpenID comes to Facebook, at last
The Social — ... For the past few years, Facebook has been flirting with the possibility of supporting the OpenID log-in standard, which calls itself "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity" without actually building support for it. ...

The Dam Just Broke: Facebook Opens Up to OpenID
ReadWriteWeb — In a few minutes Facebook will become the biggest example of a social network that allows users to log-in with OpenID credentials granted to them by other companies' websites. Major networks have said for months that their ID could be used as OpenID, but becoming "relying parties" that accepted OpenID from elsewhere was the step everyone was waiting for. The dam has broken. It's ironic that it's Facebook that did it. Facebook is probably the most closed of all the major social networks (other than LinkedIn) and Facebook is so far ahead of everyone else in market share that ...

Facebook poised to enable OpenID
TG Daily - All News — ... in to Facebook." Shepard also reiterated Facebook's commitment to security. "We came up with a design that ensures that users would know they were providing their login credentials to Facebook, and not some unscrupulous site," explained Shepard. "We streamlined the OpenID login process while maintaining security, converting the full-page redirect to a pop-up. We worked with the community to develop this pop-up extension to standardize the more streamlined user experience." The OpenID Foundation was formed in 2007 to help promote OpenID technologies. The organization is ...

Facebook embraces OpenID logins
TechSpot — One of the biggest hurdles any social network service faces is getting users to sign up (or in Twitter's case, to come back). Facebook knows this well, and has been seeking for ways to encourage more people to join. Obviously, the less hurdles there are to overcome in joining a service, the more readily people will turn to it. Embracing that ideal, Facebook has recently implemented support ...

With Facebook, Has OpenID Moved Closer to Being the De Facto Login Standard? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Facebook today rolled out support for the digital identity standard known as OpenID, the latest and to date most successful attempt to allow users to log into a web service (from many different, sometimes competing companies) with one login and password. Scoring Facebook, one of the biggest and ...

Weekly Wrapup: Linked Data, Facebook Adds OpenID, What's New in '09, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we report on why and how Facebook has opened up to OpenID, explore the rising popularity of Linked Data, analyze the current trends we're seeing on the Web, look at the future of the iPhone, and more. We also update you with the latest from our new channel ReadWriteStart, dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. Sponsor The Weekly Wrapup is sponsored by Smub: Subscribe to Weekly Wrapup You can subscribe to ...

The Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media
Mashable! — Mike Laurie works as a Digital Planner at UK Integrated Agency JPMH where he helps brands get the most from digital media. You can follow Mike on Twitter. In 2019, when you look back at the social media landscape ten years earlier, you might laugh at how hard you had to work. You had to type things into forms (ha! remember those?), type URLs in the address bar (how archaic!), and put up with irritating communications about irrelevant products. Social media in the future will be effortless and everywhere. Here’s a look at some of the new technologies in ...

Not Everyone is Excited About Facebook Vanity URLs
ReadWriteWeb — Mega social network Facebook announced yesterday that it will make "vanity URLs" like Facebook.com/yourname available for users this Friday night. Many people were ecstatic; these links are scarce, they are free, they are Facebook and they have your name in them, after all. Visions of early domain name wealth may have been somewhere in many peoples' minds, too. Not everyone is excited about the move, however; a number of critics are taking advantage of the opportunity to raise concerns about digital identity and user freedom online. ...

Engineering leader Kevin Marks leaves Google for the social web
VentureBeat — Software engineer Kevin Marks has helped push Google’s social efforts for years, working on diverse products like the company’s Orkut social network, its user profile feature, and the OpenSocial social web standard. Now, he’s leaving to work on other projects, including opening technologies he has been helping to spearhead — and maybe a startup. Google hasn’t always had a clear strategy for how it could partake in the popularity of social networks like Facebook and MySpace. Marks has played a big part in making its efforts more clear. After helping to ...

Can Sears Help OpenID Go Mainstream?
TechCrunch — It’s one thing when Internet companies like Facebook adopt OpenID, it’s another when a giant retailer like Sears Holdings Corporation embraces it. Sears has just announced that it will enable over 1 million monthly MySears and MyKmart visitors to use their Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or other accounts to log into the community websites, enabling them to write product reviews and share information about products and services without the need to create a separate account. Customers will also get access to special offers and coupons in return for their ...

Google To Announce Major Identity Initiative for 1 Million+ Companies and Schools
ReadWriteWeb — Google plans to announce in coming weeks that it is turning each of the one million plus Google Apps customer domains into an OpenID provider, enabling millions of people to log in to OpenID-supporting websites with their work, school or organization ID. "For these organizations," Google Security Product Manager Eric Sachs wrote on the public OpenID Board mailing list this morning, "Google Apps can now become an identity and data hub for multiple SaaS providers." Sachs appeared to believe his email was not being posted to a public board; he asked that it not be circulated so ...

The Web of Identities: Making Machine-Accessible People Data
ReadWriteWeb — In a previous article, we discussed the Web of data, which is about inter-linking open data sets and, thus, turning them into machine-accessible structured data. In this post, we'll draw a picture of how the emerging social Web could serve as a Web of identities, which is essentially a people-data version of the Web of data. Sponsor W3C's Linking Open Data (LOD) project has gotten quite a bit of attention for the good job it does with the Web of data. Currently, all participating data sets are accessible free of charge and can be used without ...

Techcrunch defends posting confidential documents garnered by Twitter hacker
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — The web news site Techcrunch has come under fire from its own readers for publishing documents passed to it by a hacker who broke into co-founder Evan Williams's Gmail account The American technology news site TechCrunch has become the object of a furious row after publishing details of business ...

When will identity become a known quality online?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — The hacking of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams's Gmail and other accounts by an unknown person - though reckoned to be French - has underscored one thing, no matter where you stand on the ethics of Techcrunch's publication of the documents: cloud security needs to catch up very fast to the ...

The Favorite iPhone Apps of Five Geek Rock Stars
ReadWriteWeb — Apps on the iPhone are a big deal, but there are so many of them that it can be hard to find the good ones. It's fun to compare your own selections with favorites from friends and we thought it could be fun as well to see what some well known geeks around the web say are their favorite apps. Below you'll find app recommendations from the following people: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, Chris Messina, open source community organizer, Marnie Webb, co-CEO of TechSoup Global, Baratunde Thurston, Web Editor at The Onion and Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming.org and ...

OpenID for Google Apps is Here, But Not Everybody's Happy
ReadWriteWeb — Google announced today that everyone using Google Apps enterprise or education editions can now use their organization's domain as a federated single sign-on. That means that millions of schools, businesses and other organizations can now use their Apps accounts as an OpenID. For a movement that has seen adoption held back because of confusion or just plain unfamiliarity among consumers, this should be a huge boost. However, a few prominent developers and advocates feel that Google's approach is not entirely acceptable. They are critical of the use of vendor-specific ...

Weekly Wrapup: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal, Twitter Re-Design, Internet Fridges, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze the deal to bring Microsoft's Bing search engine to Yahoo, check out the latest social media and Twitter statistics, investigate the state of RFID tags and Internet fridges, look at Apple's "interactive album" concept, and more. We also check in on our two new channels: ReadWriteEnterprise (devoted to 'enterprise 2.0' trends and products) and ReadWriteStart (dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs). Note: this week ReadWriteWeb released our ...

Enterprise OpenID: SAP Becomes a Provider
ReadWriteWeb — Enterprise software giant SAP can now be your OpenID provider, according to a blog post from the company this morning. Through their pilot program, you can use an openid.sap.com subdomain as your single single-on identifier. The decision to become a provider stemmed directly from the SAP Community Network, which, in addition to a central site, is connected to a whole host of partners that require separate logins. The aim is to let customers who use the SCN's resources avoid any headache as they move through the network. Sponsor Though there's ...

Speed in the Feed: Google Reader and PubSubHubbub
ReadWriteWeb — Google Reader is about to get much faster for developers. You'll be pleased to note that Reader has just adopted the PubSubHubbub protocol for shared items. This means that instead of repeatedly requesting that Reader's shared items reload from the server, the feed automatically updates via a distributed hub model. Rather than waiting on the back and forth pings of update notifications and polled Atom URLs, feed subscribers can receive both the notification and the message from a hub. Sponsor Subscribers get the latest content on their favorite feeds in near ...

Creative Commons Launches CC OpenID Profile
ReadWriteWeb — In addition to gaining a slew of information on your rights as a content owner, Creative Commons (CC) is offering new members another great incentive. In exchange for buying a $50 annual membership, the organization is offering donors the chance to use their network log-in as their OpenID. In other words, if you're the type of person who shares their content for the good of education, art and humanity, now you can wear it like a badge across the networks you frequent. Sponsor While it's often misinterpreted as an organization looking to remove copyright ...

US Government Reviewing OpenID to Log In to Some .Gov Sites
ReadWriteWeb — Top government IT officials and representatives from online identity services met today in Washington DC to talk about plans to allow 3rd party certification bodies, called "Trust Framework Providers," to evaluate private sector OpenID and Info Card providers for use in logging in to government agency websites. The Open Government Identity Management Solutions Privacy Workshop is being held in Washington DC to draft a process for certifying existing identity providers for low-security government authentication transactions (so-called NIST level 1). If the plans move forward, we may someday be ...

Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID.
TechCrunch — There’s some excitement around the web today among a certain group of high profile techies. What are they so excited about? Something called WebFinger, and the fact that Google is apparently getting serious about supporting it. So what is it? It’s an extension of something called the “finger protocol” that was used in the earlier days of the web to identify people by their email addresses. As the web expanded, the finger protocol faded out, but the idea of needing a unified way to identify yourself has not. That’s why you keep hearing about ...

Lack of Standards Threatens TV Everywhere
Contentinople: — NEW YORK -- A lack of standards and a legal debate may keep the cable industry's "TV Everywhere" efforts from being widely deployed for at least another two years, top industry executives predicted Tuesday. "The hurdles -- at least as we see it -- are huge. I've seen in the last 20 days about 40 different proposals for what TV Everywhere means to each individual company," CBS Interactive ...

Add Single Sign-on to Your Web Site for Free With RPX [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — Single sign-on adoption continues to spread, as increasing numbers of web sites embrace technologies such as OpenID, Facebook Connect and OAuth, which let you log into web sites using an existing account from another service, such as Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, and many others. ...

US Government To Embrace OpenID, Courtesy Of Google, Yahoo, PayPal Et Al.
TechCrunch — During the video interview with OpenID evangelist Chris Messina I recorded earlier this year at a German conference about the state of OpenID, he expressed his wish that the Obama administration would soon start to embrace the decentralized, single sign-on method as a way for citizens to engage with the U.S. government online. Four months later, it looks like his dreams are becoming reality. Later this morning at the Gov 2.0 Summit, Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra will talk about data.gov and other governmental transparency initiatives, and will also be making ...

OpenID Pilot Program to be Announced by US Government - Here's What It Means
ReadWriteWeb — Ten private companies, a number of US Government Federal Agencies primarily in the Health sector and the OpenID and Information Card Foundations will announce this morning in Washington DC the launch of a pilot program to allow members of the public to log in to participating government websites with their credentials from approved independent websites. That's right - someday soon you'll be able to log in to the websites of the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Insititute of Health and other government agencies with your accounts from Google, Yahoo and similar ...

OpenID, meet the U.S. government
Between the Lines — September 9th, 2009 OpenID, meet the U.S. government Posted by Larry Dignan @ 7:41 am Categories: AOL , General , Google , Government , MySpace , Standards , Web 2.0 , Web Technology , Yahoo Tags: U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services , Web Site , U.S. Government , OpenID , Government , Vertical Industries , Web Site Development , Corporate Governance , Internet , Business Operations The U.S. government has now joined the OpenID effort. Ten technology players ...

Feds to Let Citizens Log In With Yahoo, Google, Paypal Accounts
Wired: Epicenter — U.S. citizens will soon be able to log in to government websites using their Google account, or the URL of their Yahoo profile — a significant embrace of open and emerging tech standards as promised by the Obama administration. The U.S. government pilot program will allow people to interact with various government websites using an OpenID or an Information Card, two of the most popular emerging technologies for web users to manage their identities across multiple websites, the nation’s information technology officer will announce Wednesday. Under the new program, ...

OpenID biggest government boost yet for open source
Open Source — In the biggest government boost to open source yet, the U.S. government has endorsed OpenID. OpenID is a confederated identity system meant to let you enter many sites without worry about passwords. The code libraries needed to implement the system is available under a number of technologies, and a number of different licenses. The most common license being used now is Apachev2, but there are also implementations under the MIT, BSD, and even the MS-PL licenses. The OpenID site lists the license for SqueakSource as unknown. The program announced by U.S. ...

Government Experimenting With Identity Technologies
Fast Company - Technology — The Obama administration open government memorandum called for transparency participation, collaboration and federal agencies have begun to embrace Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, surveys, social networks, and video casts. Today there are over 500 government websites and about 1/3 of them require a user name and password. Users need to be able to register and save information and preferences on government websites the same way they do today with their favorite consumer sites, but without revealing any personally identifiable information to the government. Yesterday the United States ...

Interview: A conversation with Larry Halff about the relaunch of Ma.gnolia
CrunchGear — Many of you may remember Ma.gnolia—the nifty social bookmarking tool that unfortunately imploded at the beginning of this year. Founded by Larry Halff almost 4 years ago, the site had a different aesthetic and attitude toward sharing information. It was one of the more community-minded tools I remember from that era, offering features like the ability to “thank” the sharer of a useful link, for example. It also possessed clean design and careful site organization. In my opinion, its take on sharing data really differentiated it. Like many great things, Ma.gnolia didn’t ...

Etelos Adopts OpenID For Business Applications Sold Through Its Marketplaces
ReadWriteWeb — Etelos is adopting OpenID and Single Sign On(SSO) for its partners that sell business applications. The service will provide a single point of user authentication for business applications distributed through Etelos marketplaces. OpenID will primarily serve small business customers who use business applications from Etelos partners. OpenID will provide small businesses with an identity solution that gives them easier access to the applications they use. Etelos develops and operates private-labeled marketplaces for Web-based business applications such as Eventbrite and ...

Attacking the Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem With Real Identity
louisgray.com — Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other information was standard. But over the last few years, with advents such as OpenID ...

Attacking the Web's Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem
louisgray.com — Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other information was standard. But over the last few years, with advents such as OpenID ...

Steve Souders: Making Web Sites Faster in the Web 2.0 Age
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — As much as anything else, a user's impression of a web site has to do with how fast the site loads. But modern Web 2.0 websites aren't your father's Oldsmobile. Chocked full of rich Flash content and massive JavaScript libraries, they present a new set of challenges to engineers trying to maximized the performance of their sites. You need to design your sites to be Fast by Default. That's the theme of the upcoming Velocity Online Conference, co-chaired by Google performance guru Steve Souders. Souders is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web ...

Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Bow to Facebook & Twitter
ReadWriteWeb — Yahoo! announced this morning that it is adding Facebook Connect across many of its properties. This afternoon Google Friend Connect announced the inclusion of Twitter as a top-level log-in option. These moves will be convenient for users, but may not be good for the future of the web. People have always said that Google does what's good for the web, because what's good for the web is good for Google. In this case I'm worried that the Royalty of the web's last generation has crowned these two leading social networks as the Royalty of the current generation in a deal that offers ...