Tag: identity

OpenID Tipping Point

It really would be great if instead of deepening their silo, Yahoo! had instead chosen to use OpenID.

i wonder how this compares to the google offering? might they support openid someday soon?

Developers can use something like Google’s Account Authentication or Yahoo’s BBAuth, but many would prefer to use a vendor neutral standard. Can you blame them?

+1

The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its 250m user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon.

they finally do something right, 2 years late.

In my mind, Gears can help us get there. While it started as a project by Google to evolve web browsers faster and add needed features like offline support, it’s grown beyond that with offline support now coming in HTML 5 and a new Geolocation API. Today Gears runs on half a dozen different browser/platform combinations including FireFox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Android. If there was ever a developer platform to build an Open Source cross browser implementation of what OpenID support might look like, Gears seems like the place to do it. Not only does this mean that we’ll need to write less code to have it work in multiple browsers, but ideally if it became mature enough maybe the Gears team would choose to ship OpenID support as well? All of a sudden, the community could be down from a handful of browser plugins to one leading Open Source example.

suggests that gears may be the vector

Plaxo announced that early tests of its new OpenID login system had a 92% success rate – unheard of in the industry. OpenID’s usability problems appear closer than ever to being solved for good. This experimental method refers to big, known brands where users were already logged in, it requires 0 typing – just 2 clicks

ie, sites that are somewhat unattractive on their own benefit from the drive by of popular sites. what else is new?

Orange, one of the major mobile operator and ISP with 40m subscribers announced they would adopt OpenID. There was already a clear trend from big internet properties to adopt (Digg, Technorati Microsoft and AOL but also Yahoo and WikiPedia already announced that). But this is the first time that a major TelCo is taking that step.

this is good, but why you’d want to trust your identity to a blood-sucking, hidebound organization is unclear

Blogger now lets you enable OpenID-based commenting. This means that users of OpenID-enabled services — such as LiveJournal and WordPress — can comment on your blog using their accounts from those sites

i’m behind on my identity reading, but this may still have a shot at becoming a default on the interwebs

We’re exploring the many different ways we can integrate what we’ve demonstrated here into Movable Type, Vox, LiveJournal, and TypePad. For example, imagine using Movable Type to define your accounts elsewhere around the web, and then allowing your friends on those services to comment using OpenID and bypass your comment moderation queue. Or using Vox to easily republish the content you’ve created on Flickr, Twitter, and other such services and share it in one place with your neighborhood.

hopefully, the first of many. somewhere, marc canter is partying.

Appalachian is a Firefox add-on that adds the ability to manage and use several OpenIDs to ease the login parts of your browsing experience

Hailstorm patent

A schema-based service for Internet access to per-user services data, wherein access to data is based on each user’s identity. The service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user’s data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The services schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the services schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user’s identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner.

RFID Firewall

a device that sits on your person and jams the signals from all your personal wireless tags (transit passes, etc), then selectively impersonates them according to rules you set. Your contactless transit card will only send its signal when you authorize it, not when some jerk with an RFID scanner snipes it as you walk down the street.

Origin of stupid nicknames

It’s _really_ amusing to look at AOL today and say “I know why users are limited to 10-character names.“, and see many other elements of the original PlayNet design unchanged (even though the reason for them is LONG gone). For example, the 10-character name limit was largely based on how many screen names we could display in the room header in chat within 4(?) 40-character lines on a C64 screen. Ditto the screen-name defaults (I remember us sitting around BS’ing about how we’d handle that, and conflicts- so now you have JoeS12345.)