4 Reasons to Attend Internet Identity Workshop 2007b
| By Kevin Fox | November 30th, 2007 | Comments [0]
1. You will learn everything there is to know about what is going on in the identity space…
OK, so I exaggerate, more likely you will learn how much you don’t know. Internet Identity Workshop is a bi-yearly event that “focuses on user-centric identity and identity in the large. It is a working meeting for a range of groups focused on the technical, social and legal issues arising with the emerging identity layer of the web.”
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Updated OpenID Book Available
| By Kevin Fox | November 20th, 2007 | Comments [1]
As of November 17th 2007, Draft 15 of the OpenID Book by Rafeeq Ur Rehman is available for download. Please visit the website http://www.openidbook.com/ to download this comprehensive guide to the OpenID protocol and running OpenID enabled websites
JanRain Developers Sign OpenID Intellectual Property Rights Policy
| By Kevin Fox | November 19th, 2007 | Comments [0]
All of the developers at JanRain who have contributed to the OpenID specification (Josh H., Mike Gl., Kevin T. and Carl H.) have signed the OpenID Intellectual Property Rights Policy.
With this announcement JanRain continues it’s support for the OpenID protocol. Earlier this year JanRain also announced a Non-Assertion Covenant for OpenID
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Why OpenSocial Disappoints
| By Michael Graves | November 19th, 2007 | Comments [2]
First off, let’s get some prelimary affirmations out of the way: OpenSocial is a step forward in the social networking/digital identity ecosystem. We’re better off for having it available. It was fairly inevitable that a framework of kind would emerge in this area in reaction to the Facebook juggernaut, and in some significant ways, OpenSocial is well suited to achieving its basic goals.
It’s those basic goals that are underwhelming, disappointing. More →
4 Reasons to Sign up for the MyOpenID Affiliate Program
| By Kevin Fox | November 7th, 2007 | Comments [0]
JanRain runs MyOpenID.com which offers a free affiliate program to site owners. Sign up is simple and gives you an easy way to setup users of your site with OpenID accounts. An affiliate link, when clicked on, will start the OpenID signup process for a member and when completed will log the user back in to your site automatically. Starting your members off on the OpenID creation process via an MyOpenID affiliate link makes for a better experience and makes sure the person returns to your site satisfied.
Ok so thats great, but why the MyOpenID affiliate program?
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OpenID in Higher Education
| By Kevin Fox | November 5th, 2007 | Comments [7]
I remember back when I went to school, we had to walk 18 miles through 5 feet of snow and once we finally arrived we had to remember multiple accounts/passwords/pins to access the myriad of online services the school expected us to use. Now that I am several years removed from the hallowed towers of academia I wonder, have things changed?
The answer, unfortunately, is no.
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