Google and Yahoo have both posted a usability study for federated and openid logins. Basically both of them hint at keeping things simple and as easy to use for the user. Google has a quite nice suggestion about the UI but they all but stop at going all the way.
We’ve done a lot of thinking [...]
I have this page elsewhere on this site where I try to keep track of various accounts I have with social networks and other sites. I updated it earlier today with some interesting additions.
It seems finally decentralized social networking is starting to happen. It’s all very low profile now but promising. It all started somewhere [...]
I’ve been enthusiastic about openid for a while but have so far not managed to openid enable my site. WP-OpenID, which is the main openid plugin for wordpress is under quite active development. Unfortunately, until recently, any version I tried of that had some issues that prevented me from using it.
The author Will Norris got [...]
Google announced their friend connect yesterday. It’s part of what is a pretty broad, and in my view really smart, strategy that they have been rolling out over the past few months bit by bit. It all started with open social which is their social network API that allows gadget creators to target any social [...]
Also tagged google, social networksAs I discussed a few days ago, OpenID 2.0 has been finalized.
Also tagged webdevelopmentIt seems JanRain is finally readying the final version of OpenID 2.0. There’s a great overview of some concerns that I mostly share on readwriteweb.com. Together with another recent standard (OAuth), OpenID 2.0 could be a huge step forward for web security and privacy.
Lets start with what OpenID is about and why, generally, it is [...]
Normally when I play with a new browser (like a few weeks ago when I tried out Flock 1.0) I usually post at least something. In the past week I played with no less than three new browsers.
I started out by installing opera mini 4.0 on my N95. Earlier versions of this program were already [...]
I just installed Flock - The Social Web Browser. Right now I’m trying out the blog editor included with it to write this little review. To cut the review short, I’m planning uninstalling it after publishing this post.
Lets just start by saying that this feels like a nice bunch of concepts and potentially useful Firefox [...]
Interesting post on how microformats relate to the Semantic web as envisioned by the w3c.
The capital S is semantically relevant since it distinguishes it from the lower case semantic web that microformats are all about. The difference is that the Semantic web requires technology that has been defined by the w3c but is not [...]
The good news is that Will Norris is making progress with his openid plugin. Once he puts up a release, I’m probably going to give it a try.
The bad news is that the wordpress bug database still lists as a main reason to not support openid that support is provided by third party [...]
