| By Kevin Fox | January 9th, 2008 | Comments [4]
With OpenID back in the news, it is logical for people new to the technology to ask ‘Where can I learn more about OpenID?’ Well there are many resources out there for anyone wishing to learn about OpenID and we will go over a few of them here…
A great way to learn about OpenID is in person. The first event I attended for JanRain was BarCampPortland and it was incredible. Among other highlights I was thoroughly educated about OpenID. I was able to ask questions in the ad-hoc sessions and then follow up with fellow attendees as the event progressed.
If you will be in the San Francisco area in the very near future there is an OpenIDDevCamp coming up this weekend, January 11-January 13, 2008 at Six Apart. You can find more information on the event at the OpenID foundation blog or on Upcoming. Don’t worry if you can not attend, there are BarCamp like events being held all over the world and notes from this event will be posted in the OpenID channel on Pibb.
Interested in learning about OpenID before you jump into a *Camp event? Then you are in luck, there are a plethora of online resources available for anyone wishing to learn more about this great technology:
- Videos / Screencasts
- ‘OpenID According to Dave’ (from Vidoop)
- How to use OpenID (a screencast from Simon Willison)
- Single Sign-on with OpenID (from ScreenCastsOnline)
- Two OpenID Screencasts (Logging in to Drupal and Ma.gnolia using OpenID, from Bryght)
If you are still hungry and want to dive down deeper…
- OpenID Guides / Recipes
- Reviews of OpenID Providers
- Staying informed.. fire up your RSS Reader
- Subscribe to the RSS feed for Planet OpenID
- Setup a Google (or any) news alert for ‘OpenID’
- OpenIDEnabled.com, home of JanRain OpenID librariers, has an RSS feed for library updates
Now that you have educated yourself about OpenID help spread the word, put on an OpenID session for your next local meetup/camp/event!
January 15, 2008 at 6:23 am
Wheres the pibb manual? And why does the support@pibb.com address no longer work (got my mail returned)?
January 15, 2008 at 10:43 am
You can locate the Pibb manual on this page: http://janrain.com/products/pibb
I will ask about the support email, in the mean time you can contact me…
January 18, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I wanted to find an example of a site that conducts high-value transactions that accepts OpenID logins, because I wanted to find out what a Terms and Services agreement would look like as I am interested in how a relying party (that conductions high value transactions) can disclaim any legal liability if an OpenID IdP screws up on authentication.
I went through your list of 130 or so OpenID relying parties. The only one I found that met my criteria was GooWallet — a site that does mobile payment, and mobile bank account management.
I went there and this is what I found out:
1) They have a check box that says, “I accept the Terms of Agreement” during sign-up but in actuality they have no Terms of Service agreement in place (the page is blank). and 2) their privacy policy is incomplete.
So I am not sure if it’s a con-site, or if its real. But in any case, I suggest you remove that site from your list until they get their sh*** together.
February 2, 2008 at 5:48 am
Thanks for all this great info on OpenID. I’ve been contemplating registering an OpenID and after reading this, I did just that.