Category Archives: Citizen-centric Web

Two tastes better together: Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect

On Friday, David Recordon, one of the original authors of OpenID, released a single-page specification for OpenID Connect, a concept that I outlined on this blog in January before I joined Google. I’m particularly excited about this early proposal because it builds on all the great progress that the community has made recently on a [...]

Video of my talk: “Identity is the Platform”

I’ve posted the video that Brynn shot of my talk. Slides are available here. Of course, it’s purely coincidental that I used Pownce to illustrate my story of the “death of a web app”, since it was relaunched yesterday at TypePad Motion — without any of the relationships that were lost when the service shut [...]

Identity is the platform

These are the slides from my talk at the Mindtrek conference in Tampere, Finland today. I admit that there are some controversial things in this talk, but if I don’t say it, I don’t know who will. So, for the purpose of understanding this talk, it’s worth keeping in mind that I mean “OpenID” in [...]