Last Friday, Joseph, John and I recorded episode #25 of TheSocialWeb.tv.
Besides shout outs to 97bottles.com and Janrain for their stats on third-party account login usage, we discussed how the Obama administration might better make use of or leverage elements of the Open Stack — specifically OpenID.
The DiSo Project is just over a year old. It’s remained a somewhat amorphous blob of related ideas, concepts and aspirations in my brain, but has resulted in some notable progress, even if such progress appears dubious on the surface.
For example, OAuth is a core aspect of DiSo because it enables site-to-site permissioning and safer [...]
This is the statement (credit to Michael Richardson for my campaign slogan) that I submitted to answer the call, nominating myself as a candidate for community representative to the OpenID Foundation board:
I have long been involved with the OpenID community and have advocated for its adoption ever since I discovered it. It is a central [...]