‘OpenID’ posts

You Centric Browsing and the Assembled Web

Posted by John Eckman on 27 Oct 2009

In this video from Carsonified‘s Future of Web Apps (FOWA) London conference, Mozilla Labs‘ Aza Raskin describes what he calls “You Centric Browsing“: You-Centric: The Future of Browsing from Carsonified on Vimeo.

Community versus Commerce: MySears or Yours?

Posted by John Eckman on 05 Aug 2009

I was excited last month to see a blog post on ReadWriteWeb about Sears and Kmart adopting OpenID. In that post, Frederic Lardinois writes: Users on Kmart’s and Sears’ web properties can now use their OpenID credentials to sign up and log in to these sites. MyKmart.com and MySears.com, which are both owned by the [...]

Weaving Identity into the Browser

Posted by John Eckman on 14 May 2009

(via Dion Almaer and ReadWriteWeb) Mozilla Labs posted a screencast yesterday of a new feature as part of the Weave project, which enables OpenID at the browser level, which will have potentially significant impact on adoption and use of portable identity technology. Weave is a Mozilla Labs project, started back in December of 2007, which [...]

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »

Social Networking Identity Mapping, and Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Apr 2008

Although social network platforms have been increasingly open to application development, spurred by Facebook’s API and reinforced by the Open Social foundation, the approach has always been to enourage the development of applications inside the walls of the social network. As I’ve written before (“Open Social is a start but not the whole picture“), however, | View post »

Yahoo! Announces OpenID Support

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jan 2008

After a number of folks noticed code referring to OpenID showing up in Flickr pages (I think this was first noted at Mashable), there's been much speculation about Yahoo! becoming an OpenID provider. Today Yahoo! made it official. From the press release: Yahoo!'s initial OpenID service, which will be available in public beta on January | View post »

Social Networking Inside Out

Posted by John Eckman on 01 Jan 2008

One of the major challenges in the world of Social Networking is social network fatigue: the idea that there is a relatively tight limit to the number of social networking applications in which any user can participate, because it quickly gets rather exhausting to keep track of multiple logins, post news to multiple streams, reply | View post »

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