Jeremiah Owyang recently wrote an article called “A New Epoch: The State of the Social Software Suites,” talking about the Cambrian Explosion – the rapid emergence of millions of species – and how that correlates to the current social software landscape and the need for consolidations of platforms to help businesses manage not only the [...]
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Four weeks ago, members of the OpenID Foundation voted and later announced the launch of the Backplane Protocol Work Group. This is exciting news for both website owners and application developers. For website owners, enabling web applications to talk to one another within the same web page can be frustrating and can take countless hours of development. [...]
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At last week’s 14th Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, California, this workshop newbie was initiated into the dynamic world of Internet identity. I was finally able to put a few faces to names from the various Internet specifications we consult with frequently while building the social web at Janrain. And, who knew some of them [...]
Filed Under: Technology // Tagged: backplane, event, identity