First session set up by Terrell of ClaimID: Open Life Bits, some interesting discussion about how to control one's one data and deal with data about one's self. The distinction is interesting and useful; every transaction that involves a second party potentially generates data about you controlled by that party, but you do want to be able to deal with that data, correct inaccuracies, etc. Notes here.
Next session, Joseph Smarr of Plaxo, OpenID user experience. Good walkthrough of UI issues. Note that with directed identity in OpenID 2.0, can simply ask to log in a user given their service. Notes here. Using an email address is a possibility as well; clicking on a recognizable icon (AIM) to kick of an authentication process is probably the most usable path right now.
Session: OAuth Extensions; notes here.
Session: OAuth + OpenID. Use case: I have an AOL OpenID. I go to Plaxo and am offered to (1) create an account using my AOL OpenID and (2) pull in my AOL addressbook, all in one step.
Proposal: I log in via OpenID and pass in an attribute request asking for an OAuth token giving appropriate access, which lets AOL optimize the permissions page (to one page, or organize all data together). Then get token, and use token to retrieve data.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Internet Identity Workshop 2007b
I'll be at IIW next week, talking about Blogger, OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and anything else that seems interesting. I'm anticipating a great event.OpenID Commenting for Blogger!
We've just enabled OpenID signed comments for Blogger in Draft. There are a few rough edges still (which is why you have to enable it for your blog by going to draft.blogger.com), so we're looking for feedback. We're also working on enabling Blogger as an OpenID Provider, meaning that you can use your blog URL to identify yourself on other services.
What's particularly fun about this is that it's been a very collaborative project, bringing together Blogger engineers, 20% time from a couple of non-Blogger engineers, and last but not least some of the fine open source libraries provided by the OpenID community. Thanks all!
What's particularly fun about this is that it's been a very collaborative project, bringing together Blogger engineers, 20% time from a couple of non-Blogger engineers, and last but not least some of the fine open source libraries provided by the OpenID community. Thanks all!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Essential Atom and AtomPub in 30 seconds
Atom is this: You have a bunch of things, or sometimes just one thing. They always have unique ids, they have timestamps, and tell you who created/is responsible for them. Oh yeah, if you can, please provide a short snippet of text describing each thing.
AtomPub is how to discover, create, delete, and edit those things.
Everything else is optional and/or extensions.
AtomPub is how to discover, create, delete, and edit those things.
Everything else is optional and/or extensions.
Friday, November 2, 2007
OpenSocial Ecosystem
OpenSocial has been... extensively covered in just about all media over the past few days. The official site is up, and the video from the Campfire 1 announcement as well.
Obviously this is just a first step. We're all trying to build a self-sustaining ecosystem, and right now we're bootstrapping. It's a bit like terraforming: We just launched the equivalent of space ships carrying algae :).
A key next step is making it easy to create social app containers. It's not hard to build a web page that can contain Gadgets, though it could be easier. Adding the social APIs, the personal data stores, social identity, and authentication and authorization makes things a lot more complex. This is the part I'm working on, along with a lot of other people. It's a problem space I've been working in for a while on the side. Now it's time to achieve 'rough consensus and running code.'
Obviously this is just a first step. We're all trying to build a self-sustaining ecosystem, and right now we're bootstrapping. It's a bit like terraforming: We just launched the equivalent of space ships carrying algae :).
A key next step is making it easy to create social app containers. It's not hard to build a web page that can contain Gadgets, though it could be easier. Adding the social APIs, the personal data stores, social identity, and authentication and authorization makes things a lot more complex. This is the part I'm working on, along with a lot of other people. It's a problem space I've been working in for a while on the side. Now it's time to achieve 'rough consensus and running code.'
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Blogger #1 "Social Networking" Site Worldwide
The folks over at Windows Live Spaces just crunched some ComScore worldwide numbers. Their headline was "Windows Live Spaces at a Crossroads", but I think my headline fits their graphs better.
According to them, Blogger did 140,000,000 worldwide unique visitors in September, and has been on a tear since June. Nice! And to all those Blogger users, thank you!
Of course, whether Blogger is a "Social Networking" site depends on your definitions; Dare wants to disqualify the front runner. Me? I think 140 million people can speak for themselves.
According to them, Blogger did 140,000,000 worldwide unique visitors in September, and has been on a tear since June. Nice! And to all those Blogger users, thank you!
Of course, whether Blogger is a "Social Networking" site depends on your definitions; Dare wants to disqualify the front runner. Me? I think 140 million people can speak for themselves.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Fireblog
The San Diego Union-Tribune has been posting wildfire-related updates in real time to a site, http://fireblog.signonsandiego.com/, but their servers melted under the load, so they moved over to Blogger yesterday, and have been up and running and helping people out since last night. It was great to be able to tell them that load isn't a problem for us :).
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