| By Kevin Fox | July 26th, 2007 | Comments [0]
Scott Kveton recently posted a good article about OpenID IP and Patent concerns on his blog. For anyone who has been following OpenID this is a worthwhile read.
David Recordon and Simon Willison gave an excellent OpenID Bootcamp tutorial at OSCON. Slides can be found up at http://www.slideshare.net/daveman692/op
| By Kevin Fox | July 25th, 2007 | Comments [1]
Just a quick note to mention some new additions to our MyOpenID site directory:
Twitterfeed is OpenID enabled and lets you do a number of interesting things with Twitter. Including getting your Pownce messages to Twitter!
I received an email from Adam Frey last week informing me that Wikispaces now supports OpenID and that they found MyOpenid.com to be helpful in their testing. **Update** New users can join with an OpenID account, and existing users can now associate their OpenID with their wikispaces account. See Adam’s comments below for directions on how to associate your OpenID account to your account on wikispaces.
| By Kevin Fox | July 24th, 2007 | Comments [3]
There have been some recent observations made about the future of big social networks and single sign on. The general question has been whether a technology like OpenID can help or whether it will be supplanted by an identity widget launched by one of the big guys. Of course in the argument between Facebook or OpenID, we have to weigh in on the OpenID side noting that they are not mutually exclusive.
With over 100 million OpenID identities created, OpenID is not going away. The momentum of OpenID and fact that Facebook is working with Open Source companies like Six Apart certainly makes it plausible we could see Facebook support for OpenID in the future. Ideally we would like to see all platforms support OpenID authentication at some point.
| By Kevin Fox | July 23rd, 2007 | Comments [2]
JanRain would like to officially announce it is issuing a “non-assertion covenant,” promising that JanRain, Inc. will not enforce patents against developers implementing OpenID technology. This follows similar announcements from Sun and Verisign and is a positive step forward for the OpenID community at large.
| By Kevin Fox | July 20th, 2007 | Comments [0]
There is an interesting post over on Scott Kveton’s blog relating to where the official OpenID project website really is… Much ado about .org fills us in on the history of OpenID dot org and OpenID.net and makes it crystal clear that indeed OpenID.net is the place to go to learn more about OpenID and interface with the OpenID community.
If you have any questions about OpenID please visit us in the OpenID Channel On Pibb:
| By Kevin Fox | July 19th, 2007 | Comments [1]
Plaxo has recently released a beta of Plaxo 3.0 which includes support for OpenID. Plaxo also published an “implementation guide to accelerate its [OpenID] adoption across the industry, available online at http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid.” A recipe for OpenID-enabling your site is even provided by Plaxo’s own Joseph Smarr. His blog post explains more about the announcement…
This bit of news has led some to ponder whether Plaxo Could Be the Open Source Facebook.
More →
| By Kevin Fox | July 19th, 2007 | Comments [5]
Reading through blogs looking for OpenID posts I found a useful post from a satisfied OpenID and Pibb user. Do You Have an ID? Indeed “I have an ID, OpenID”
Also in late, late, news OpenID beats out stiff competition and wins the ‘disruptor’ award at the NextWeb Awards 2007
| By Kevin Fox | July 18th, 2007 | Comments [0]
We are pleased to welcome supporters of Ron Paul to the Ron Paul channel on Pibb. Click on the icon below to be taken directly to the channel:
| By Kevin Fox | July 18th, 2007 | Comments [1]
Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has done a write up of the new, ‘friendlier’ Pibb. New features include a Channel Directory, the ability to view content anonymously and to login with your AOL screen name or LiveJournal account directly.
JanRain CTO, Michael Graves, also shares his thoughts on the current development of Pibb and how it plays into the “ecosystem that OpenID enables”.
| By Kevin Fox | July 18th, 2007 | Comments [3]
With the steady increase in the number of ‘Social Network Sites’ over the past year, and being that JanRain is all about OpenID, we are definitely interested in the question “Could OpenID be Our Savior to the Social Network Blues?” Well, the short answer is Yes!
