Category Archives: DiSo

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

Update: Einar Solbakken has translated this post to Danish. 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 [...]

Google Buzz and the fabric of the social web

When I joined the company a month ago, I was baited with the promise that Google was ready to get serious about the social web. Yesterday’s launch of Google Buzz and the fledgling Google Buzz API is like a downpayment on what I see as Google’s broader social web ambitions, that have been bubbling beneath [...]

OpenID Connect

I’ve been thinking about how we make OpenID both easier and sexier for quite a while now. As frustrating as the answer may be to technologists, the problem is not necessarily one that can be solved with more technology. Instead, at some point, you have to move beyond the original constituents of a solution and [...]