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BBC Digital Planet podcast featuring OpenID

Update: The BBC has posted a write-up of the report called Easy login plans gather pace. I was interviewed by Gareth Mitchell last week about OpenID for the BBC's Digital Planet podcast.Our conversation lasted about 10 minutes — of which only about two minutes survived (mirrored here as

This week in video: Facebook and the OpenID Design Workshop

http://www.viddler.com/player/423b8f4b/Needless to say, it's been a big week for the open web, with Facebook joining the OpenID Foundation and hosting an OpenID Design Workshop.Above is the latest episode of theSocialWeb.tv called "An Open Discussion with Facebook", filmed yesterday

Where data goes when it dies and other musings

I've been wanting to write about Ma.gnolia's catastrophic data loss last week ever since it happened, but wasn't quite sure how I wanted to approach it. Larry (Ma.gnolia founder and the sole person who maintained the site) is a good friend of

Welcoming Facebook to the OpenID Foundation

The day after Facebook's 5th birthday, I join David Recordon and the rest of the board of the OpenID Foundation in welcoming Facebook as our newest member, in rapid succession to Paypal just a few weeks ago. The significance of both of these companies investing in and becoming

Inaugural Jelly! Talk this Friday: OpenID vs Facebook Connect

This Friday, I'll be joined by Dave Morin (my good friend from Facebook) at the first ever Jelly! Talk at Joe and Brian's loft in San Francisco.If you're not familiar with Jelly, you should be. I call it the "gateway drug to

What PayPal's member in the OpenID Foundation could mean

Brian Kissel announced this morning that PayPal has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation as our sixth corporate member, with Andrew Nash, Sr., Director of Information Risk Management and a longstanding advocate for OpenID, as their representative.That PayPal has joined is certainly good news, and helps to diversify

TheSocialWeb.tv #25: "An 'Open' Letter to the Obama Administration"

http://www.viddler.com/player/95214990/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

Twitter can has OAuth?

Twitter API lead Alex Payne announced today that Twitter is now accepting applications to its OAuth private beta, making good on the promises he made on the Twitter API mailing list and had repeated on the January 8 Citizen Garden podcast (transcript by stilist).It's worth pointing out

Farewell W, aloha Obama! (or, Announcing PublicSentiment.net!)

On the eve of President Obama's inauguration, I'm happy to announce a new side project that Brynn, Michael, and I have been working on for the past three weeks called Public Sentiment.At its base, it's simply a site for polling opinions, designed to