Nov. 1st blogging ‘08
Report from the OpenID summitI agree with Dare’s disagreement of John McCrea’s post comparing OpenID and Facebook Connect. Apples and Grapefruit John. Its a GOOD thing that Facebook is at the OpenID table - but OpenID is far from being a comprehensive solution like Facebook Connect. Its powerful, it’s open, it’s ours - but it’s just a piece of the puzzle and that’s what usability suffers.
Speaking of Dare (and congrats again on his new baby!) I also agree with him that platforms need to be a two-way street. That’s something I call “two-way APIs” - a symetrical approach to building our open mesh. Microsoft seems to grok that and Facebook is doing everything it can to thwart it.
I had to re-read Jon Udell’s post on Azure a couple of times - and it keeps getting better.
Social network subscription at Dopplr - about time someone figured this out!
Did I forget to mention that Microsoft is going to be a reliable provider for OpenID and that Google is now turing Gmail accounts into OpenID? And that Plaxo and Zoho are already supporting it? And that the community bitched and moaned about not supporting XRDS and Google listened. Even John Battelle is impressed. Too bad he never attended any of the sessions we did at his own Web 2.0 - 4 years in a row.
Only Steve Gillmor could equate Salesforce, Ray Ozzie and Neil Young in the same “day in his life”. Yes - I read the new today - oh boy. And it looks liek we’re about to elect our first “mixed race” president.
Context and the notion of a Universal profile - I wonder if this guy ever heard of OpenID? :-)
Matt MacAllister has several examples why open is good for businesses
Google gadgets IN Gmail - now things are getting pretty interesting
Better social plumbing for the Social web
Storytlyr, Glue - (and it’s semantic binding), Sobees, Cooliris, Facebook’s Scribe, Eventbox,
