The new microblogging service identi.ca has been online for some time now and its user base is growing steadily. It hasn’t gotten as much attention as Twitter or Jaiku to name a few, but identi.ca offers some features that are quite compelling to geeks as myself.
Perhaps the best thing about identi.ca is that its an [...]
OpenID, the open way of authentication yourself is gaining more and more popularity. Two sites I use often, sourceforge.net and slicehost.com are now OpenID enabled!
I’ve blogged about OpenID before, here’s an introduction.
There is more OpenID buzz on the internet than ever before! After Microsoft announced it’s Cardspace Initiative to be compliant with OpenID 2.0, now Yahoo! has sent out a press release where they announce that the Yahoo! ID will also be OpenID compliant!
The support by Yahoo! for the OpenID 2.0 specification will triple the number [...]
It’s possible to delegate your OpenID to another identity URL. In my case I delegated my OpenID http://id.masuran.org to http://blog.masuran.org.
The biggest benefit you get when delegating your OpenID is that you are independent from any OpenID provider. Let’s say you don’t host your own OpenID identity and that in a couple of years you become [...]
Starting from right now you can log on to masuran.org using an OpenID!
Thanks to Will Norris’ excellent Wordpress plugin I was able to accomplish this in under 30 minutes! Users who already have an account on my blog can easily add their OpenID identifier to their existing account.
Interested in your own OpenID account? Take a [...]
You probably read all about OpenID in my previous post and as promised here is a tutorial on how to install your own OpenID server. At the end of this article you’ll have your own OpenID and you’ll be your own OpenID provider.
To be able to run your own OpenID server all you need is [...]
Perhaps you have already heard about OpenID, a new way to handle authentication with websites. OpenID promises to be a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the internet.
Can there be such a thing? Can OpenID succeed where Microsoft constantly fails with it’s Passport and Windows Live technology? Let’s have a [...]