Big news, TechCrunch says Facebook First Big Site To Really Embrace OpenID. I’ve been following OpenID for several years. Yes its confused with Microsoft Passport at first glance but when coupled with OAuth and other underlying infrastructures, it will allow things like letting websites share your data without providing your password, which is common with [...]
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by David Evans on December 15, 2008 in Safety
Recently I spoke with Larry Cynkin, CTO of Honesty Online, as part of the Online Dating Insider sponsor series. Honesty Online provides a verified identity credential that you can use and re-use wherever you interact or transact online. Your credential is your virtual calling card, letting others know who you are and letting them know [...]
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Read all about how complicated OpenID is for normal people to use. This Passport replacement system has been building quite a head of steam for some time now, but it’s still too much work to use. Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research.
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by David Evans on January 25, 2008 in Safety
Perusing the list of presenters and sponsors of the Social Networking and Dating conference in Miami. I came across Vidoop, which is building out a single signon solution based on Open ID. Vidoop provides corporate-grade security to websites, but with an interesting twist.
Vidoop Secure is a software-only, multi-factor user login technology based on categorized images. [...]
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