I’ve talked about this before (as one of the secondary motivators behind OAuth) but I felt it deserved a special call out.
Recently, Simon Willison presented on OpenID and called the practice that Dopplr (and many many others) uses to import your contacts from Gmail absolute horrifying. I would concur, but point out that Dopplr [...]
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Public nuisance #1: Importing your contacts
Dec 19th – 12pm
Data portability and thinking ahead to 2008
Nov 26th – 1am
So-called data portability and data ownership is a hot topic of late, and with good reason: with all the talk of the opening of social networking sites and the loss of presumed privacy, there’s been a commensurate acknowledgment that the value is not in the portability of widgets (via OpenSocial et al) but instead, (as [...]
hCard for OpenID Simple Registration and Attribute Exchange
Nov 1st – 7pm
One of the many promises of OpenID is the ability to more easily federate profile information from an identity provider to secondary consumer applications. A simple example of this is when you fill out a basic personal profile on a new social network: if you’ve ever typed your name, birthday, address and your dog’s name [...]