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09 Sep 09

Burton Group Identity Blog: US Government Identity News

  • Organizations which serve as trust roots will assess the practices and guarantees of identity providers, and they will establish registries of providers and “score” them against a set of identity assurance criteria aligned with the Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Framework and the OMB M-04-04 and NIST SP 800-63 guidelines.
12 May 09

FOAF+SSL+OpenID+ODS - ESW Wiki

  • This is simple guide to using and verifying ODS-OpenID extended via FOAF+SSL. Covering the following scenarios:
08 Apr 09

Does OpenID need to be hard? | FactoryCity

  • picking an identity provider should be like picking a bank or credit card provider: as a fourth-party service provider that advocates for your interest, since you’re their customer!
  • Instead of agreeing to terms of service that disclaim all responsibility to you, the customer, I hope that competition in the identity space will lead providers to actually take responsibility for their services — charging good money for doing so. If your account gets hacked — no problem! — your identity provider can put back the pieces and make things right again! You could even take out online identity insurance in case your identity is ever stolen — so you can always get back to your life and recover your data without the hassle and interruption when it happens today.
03 Apr 09

CrowdVine Blog » Blog Archive » Declining OpenID Usage

  • Despite the benefits and increasing support from major sites, I’ve also heard from friends that they’ve seen OpenID usage drop on their own sites. Our stats are bleak. Usage dropped in our tech conferences and isn’t used at all (as in ever) in our mainstream conferences.
27 Feb 09

Peter Williams - OpenID 2.0’s Killer Feature

  • Directed identity is the concept of having a
    single identity that appears to be a different identity for every
    relying party (ie, an application that wants to verify your identity).
    The identity provider would, of course, understand that all these
    single use identities are really all part of the same identity. This
    would, theoretically, prevent unscrupulous people from building a
    profile about all the things you do online, because each website you
    visited would know you by a different identity. However, you could
    still log into all those websites using the same credentials since the
    identity provider would know that all those single use identities
    belong to you.
06 Feb 09

Facebook Developers | Facebook Developers News

  • We're happy to announce today that we are formalizing our support of the OpenID Foundation by officially joining the board. 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. As a next step in that effort, we will be hosting an OpenID Design Summit next week here at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto.

Welcoming Facebook to the OpenID Foundation | FactoryCity

  • Facebook Connect is simple because there is no choice: you click a button. Of course, that button only works for the growing subset of the web who have Facebook accounts and want to share their Facebook identity with the web site displaying the button, but that’s why their experience trumps that of OpenID’s. If you take away user choice, everything becomes simple.
  • Facebook will be hosting the second User Experience Summit for OpenID on February 10th. The goal is to convene some of the best designers that leading internet companies can muster, and bring them together to develop a series of guidelines, best practices, iterations, and interfaces for making OpenID not just suck less, but become a great experience (in same vein as the hybrid OpenID/OAuth flow that we saw from Plaxo and Google last week, and in line with Luke Shepard’s proposals for an OpenID popup).

Official Google Data APIs Blog: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together

  • We are happy to announce an important enhancement to our recently launched OpenID endpoint. Google now supports the "Hybrid Protocol", combining OpenID federated login together with OAuth access authorization. Websites can now ask Google to sign-in a user using their Google Account, and at the same time request access to information available via OAuth-enabled APIs such as the Google Data APIs.
16 Apr 08

A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

  • This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts. It will explain how to easily let new users sign up for an account on your site using their OpenID URL and how to let existing users attach their OpenID(s) so they can sign in using them.
09 Apr 08

diso - Google Code

  • Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards - both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard apis, and open-source software are key building blocks of these technologies. This model can be described as having three sides/legs/arms/spokes - pick your connection: Information, Identity, and Interaction.

    DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it: "to build a social network with its skin inside out".

    Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.

20 Mar 08

Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com

  • Historically, online media tend to start this way. The early services, such as CompuServe, Prodigy or AOL, began as “walled gardens” before they opened up to become websites. The early e-mail services could send messages only within their own walls (rather as Facebook's messaging does today). Instant-messaging, too, started closed, but is gradually opening up. In social networking, this evolution is just beginning. Parts of the industry are collaborating in a “data portability workgroup” to let people move their friend lists and other information around the web. Others are pushing OpenID, a plan to create a single, federated sign-on system that people can use across many sites.
10 Mar 08

People as Data Connectors

  • This is reason why Kingsley and a bunch of other people like to call the "Semantic Web" the "Linked Data Web".  Potayto-potato, it's all the same to me.  It’s cool, though.  It lets an application traverse the social graph to do its thing instead of being confined to its own network.  It allows an application on one network to access Person C’s data, on another network, by going from Person A to Person B to Person C, and then to their data.
05 Mar 08

In Context » Higgins 1.0.0 released!

  • The next trick will be building awareness and adoption. When you consider that 0% of all websites (or enterprise apps) accept i-cards or OpenID, and 0% of sites issue cards, it’s small wonder that 0% of users today even know what an identity selector is. We’ve got our work cut out for us!
11 Feb 08

Evolving the OpenID Foundation Board

  • This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. The OpenID Foundation was formed in early 2006 by seven community members with the goal of helping promote, protect and enabling the OpenID technologies and community. Today’s announcement marks a milestone in the maturity and impact that the OpenID community has had. While the OpenID Foundation serves a stewardship role around the community’s intellectual property, the Foundation’s board itself does not make any decisions about the specifications the community is collaboratively building.

Some challenges in current DataPortability trends

  • In the last couple of weeks there have been a number of very positive steps forward for Data Portability in general and the DataPortability Project specifically.


    These include wins by the OpenID Foundation, the IC report, the DataPortability Report and others.

  • A couple of trends, though, are causing me a little concern and may require a slight course correction before they spin out of control and fragment, rather than standardize, the ecosystem.
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