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Posts Tagged ‘OpenId’

Weekly Blogistan Round-Up no. 49/2008

the new AkiraIt’s been a week full of surprises: Pownce closed pretty unexpectedly, while Twitter is still growing at an amazing rate. And a new trend finally has been turned into an API, or rather two APIs: Google as well as Facebook try to decentralize social networking and at the same time establish their own platforms as the central social hub. I am really looking forward to buddypress – in my opinion, “hosted” services are fine as additional traffic streams, but no online professional should put his main assets into third-party hands. Read the rest of this entry »

Who’s gonna manage our digital identity?

Scotty, get those phazers ready – the battle for digital identity management is about to begin. The Google Klingons have yet not been able to successfully launch their not-so-secret weapon OpenSocial, while the Federation’s OpenId primarily seems to appeal to nerds. Read the rest of this entry »