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31 Oct 08
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Google's new service goes a bit beyond simply allowing users a convenient login, however. Google is also exposing some of its services for data transfer using the OAuth API. As a result, users that wind up with photos at a service that handles OpenID can forward them on to Picasa for use there. To an extent, this more sophisticated approach comes closer to fulfilling the promise of OpenID by allowing the seamless use of the content across web services, rather than simply an identity.
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With every big portal acting as a provider but not a consumer of identity credentials, users are still going to wind up creating accounts for more than one service (says this user of Flickr and Google Calendars).
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But the use of OAuth by Google suggests that the data stored at the providers' sites could be made portable as well. Of course, allowing that would place the users' convenience above each service provider's hope that users will rely on their services alone.
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30 Oct 08
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none of the major providers have taken the biggest leap of faith that OpenID will require: allowing the credentials of another to work on their own site
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the OAuth API. As a result, users that wind up with photos at a service that handles OpenID can forward them on to Picasa for use there. To an extent, this more sophisticated approach comes closer to fulfilling the promise of OpenID by allowing the seamless use of the content across web services
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With every big portal acting as a provider but not a consumer of identity credentials, users are still going to wind up creating accounts for more than one service
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