I'm a big fan of OpenID. However, pretty much all of my past uses of it have been experiments, demonstrations, or because I sought out OpenID enabled sites ( Read more... )

In response to brad's post and daveman692's post, about Thoughts on the Social Graph.

I have posted the following:
I came home from FOOcamp with my mind buzzing with something similar. It was in the zeitgeist, I guess.

Between being annoyed at some of 6As recent actions, and annoyed that if I left LJ, I would lose a lot of valuable social network information. ( Read more... )

I want to write a OpenID Provider. Initially with a very basic web "look". Add skinning, CSS, branding. Pluggable modules for user attributes and auth techniques.

Sunday afternoon, I took the Amtrak from Seattle down to Portland. I think from now on, if I want to go to Portland, that will be the way I will go. It's about as fast as driving, a lot less stressful, it's cheaper (looking at the cost of gasoline), and I have a power outlet. And no damn TSA to deal with ( Read more... )

I just signed up on Jyte. Anyone else use it?

FOOcamp 2007 had/has a bespoke social network site, based on CrowdVineWhile using it, I sent in a handful of suggestions to the developer/maintainer, Tony Stubblebine. I asked for OpenID, for vCard, and for OPML. OpenID to avoid "yet another password". vCard so I could import all my neat FOOcamp contacts into my address book. OPML so I could ( Read more... )

One of the people I met last weekend was Simon Willison. We spent some time talking about OpenID. Like me, he's been trying to convence various sites and projects to hire him to OpenID-enable them ( Read more... )

At the Ignite Seattle a few days ago, a very hyperactive guys, Mark Novak of Microsoft, "broke" OpenID in a dizzying flickering of slides. As best I can tell, the basis of the "break" is that if your OpenID provider becomes evil, they can start impersonating you ( Read more... )

I've just used OpenID for the second time "for real", using it to login to DZone.

After chasing malixe's photos of SEAF, I have finally done a real OpenID login, for the first time. To Zooomr. Here's hoping it's the first of many.

If any of my readers administer or have technical input into any web sites that have registrations or accounts, wikis, blog comments, web services, etc, whatever, please start pushing to implement OpenID.