Author Archives: Chris Messina

When location is everywhere

What if you could take location as a given in the design of web applications and services? By that I mean, what if — when someone who has never used your service before shows up, signs up (ideally with an OpenID!) — and it’s both trivial and desirable for her to provide you with access [...]

OAuth Discovery 1.0 Draft 2 released with support from Ma.gnolia, Fire Eagle and Satisfaction

Eran just announced the second draft of OAuth Discovery, the first implementation of the XRDS-Simple specification that I mentioned here just over a week ago.
What’s significant about this announcement, as Eran points out, is that the new draft is already implemented and deployed by FireEagle (a Yahoo! Brickhouse service), Ma.gnolia, and Get Satisfaction — three [...]

Ma.gnolia moves to OpenID-only sign ups

Ma.gnolia’s not the first to move to OpenID-only signups, but perhaps one of the first to remove the ability to create new Ma.gnolia-only accounts in favor of the alternative.
If you previously created a Ma.gnolia account you can still sign in with your email address or username and password, but new accounts must be generated using [...]