I'm a fan of OpenID but it is not ready for consumer use. I think they'd be nuts to use it yet.
"What do you mean I enter http://billybob.googleopenid.com/ as my usename? You talking crazy boy" and "holy hell why has it sent me to another site to logon to this one? Is this some kind of scam?"
From what I've read so far, I don't think a unified sign on is part of what they're working on. Could be wrong though.
They appear to be working on standards for 3 things: Profile Information (user data), Friends Information (social graph) and Activities (news feeds).
Imagine if facebook and myspace agree to implement these standards.
Say I have a facebook account and I want to add my brother as a friend but he has a myspace account. I don't need to be able to login to myspace - facebook can ask myspace for the profile information for that user and facebook can add that info to my friend list. So its not about being able to login to all the different social networks but it's about being able to share data between these networks.
Another cool use case: Imagine if wordpress implements a plugin that implements these standards. Now every wordpress blog in the world can become part of of a social network. I don't want people to be able to log into my blog but I want them to be able to add me as a contact with my blog as my profile page in the OpenSocial network.
Of course I'm just speculating here - it'll become clearer when we can actually look at the standard.
Hopefully that can be done with a WP plugin since Donncha said a while back that Automattic is 100% concentrating on blogs and not on social networking (in response to me saying that a "social" Wordpress could easily compete with Facebook).
This is another opportunity for Six Apart to recover lost ground from WP and even compete with FB etc. I wonder do they have the balls and/or will to go for it?
Great conversation going on here. I like the idea of "single sign on" through your existing ID (ie.gmail, yahoo, etc). or having your CompanyID as a hosted service./key that allows you to sign into your apps. A bit like gmail for your other email. This is going to be Key (ouch) for mashup applications, I think.
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(I'm being sceptical about OpenID itself here too btw)
2 years, 1 month ago by DamienMulley
@damien: I dunno really. I am not big in/on social networkig sites, but Dave Winer kinda made a point..
http://tinyurl.com/dj9hk
2 years, 1 month ago by runningwithbulls
I'm a fan of OpenID but it is not ready for consumer use. I think they'd be nuts to use it yet. "What do you mean I enter http://billybob.googleopenid.com/ as my usename? You talking crazy boy" and "holy hell why has it sent me to another site to logon to this one? Is this some kind of scam?"
2 years, 1 month ago by conoro
what would be more interesting is if it used oAuth.
2 years, 1 month ago by sxoop
From what I've read so far, I don't think a unified sign on is part of what they're working on. Could be wrong though.
They appear to be working on standards for 3 things: Profile Information (user data), Friends Information (social graph) and Activities (news feeds).
Imagine if facebook and myspace agree to implement these standards.
Say I have a facebook account and I want to add my brother as a friend but he has a myspace account. I don't need to be able to login to myspace - facebook can ask myspace for the profile information for that user and facebook can add that info to my friend list. So its not about being able to login to all the different social networks but it's about being able to share data between these networks.
Another cool use case: Imagine if wordpress implements a plugin that implements these standards. Now every wordpress blog in the world can become part of of a social network. I don't want people to be able to log into my blog but I want them to be able to add me as a contact with my blog as my profile page in the OpenSocial network.
Of course I'm just speculating here - it'll become clearer when we can actually look at the standard.
2 years, 1 month ago by aidanf
Hopefully that can be done with a WP plugin since Donncha said a while back that Automattic is 100% concentrating on blogs and not on social networking (in response to me saying that a "social" Wordpress could easily compete with Facebook).
This is another opportunity for Six Apart to recover lost ground from WP and even compete with FB etc. I wonder do they have the balls and/or will to go for it?
2 years, 1 month ago by conoro
We are about to use OAuth (http://oauth.net/) for our API. Is anyone else here using it?
2 years, 1 month ago by MarcusMacInnes
Great conversation going on here. I like the idea of "single sign on" through your existing ID (ie.gmail, yahoo, etc). or having your CompanyID as a hosted service./key that allows you to sign into your apps. A bit like gmail for your other email. This is going to be Key (ouch) for mashup applications, I think.
2 years, 1 month ago by PaulSweeney