6 posts and columns on OpenID

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Almost Famous: Chris Messina of Google

in News on March 26, 2010 at 1:09 pm PT

In this installment of “Almost Famous,” which we call “Need to Know,” focusing on less prominent but very important tech execs you need to know better, we did an interview with Chris Messina. He’s a recent get by Google who is all about opening the Web. He’s a designer by training, so be ready for all kinds of visual metaphors, like walled gardens, tearing down silos and keeping the Web from looking like Nascar.

So Much for OpenID–Google Friend Connect Gets Twitter, Facebook Connect Gets Yahoo

in News on December 3, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Ever use Google Friend Connect? No? Every heard of it? No? Well, you may soon. If you use Twitter. This morning, Google said it is integrating the microblogging service with Friend Connect, a federated identity platform that allows credentials from social networks to be used on nonsocial sites.
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Embrace. Extend …. What Comes Next, Again?

in Social on March 25, 2008 at 12:09 am PT

In February, Microsoft surprised industry watchers and embraced the idea of data portability, throwing its support behind OpenID, a decentralized digital-identity protocol. This morning came the inevitable extension of that idea, the announcement of a partnership with five social networks on a new data-portability strategy.

Anything to Complicate the Microsoft Bid, Eh Yahoo?

in News on March 12, 2008 at 3:25 pm PT

Google’s (GOOG) “Everybody-But-Facebook Coalition” may soon have a new member: Yahoo (YHOO). The New York Times reports that the company intends to join OpenSocial, a Google-led alliance that aims to create a set of common APIs that will enable developers to write applications for a broad range of Web sites and services without any individual [...]