People complain a lot that users don’t understand about OpenID logins booting them to another website to authenticate. Don’t Google already do this with Blogger and Yahoo with Flickr? That is to say: don’t tens of millions of people do this regularly already? I mean, what’s the big difference? I know there are other usability complaints/problems, but this one sounds eerily like a ...

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After a few more moments of thought following my last post I imagine what we could do is implement OpenID consumption so that rather than forcing people to be pre-approved before they get a light-weight account they can be post-approved. That is to say, if you’ve registered for a light-weight account using an Open...

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Just for my own reference, because I keep forgetting the syntax and having to Google it: SET PASSWORD FOR 'some_user'@'some_host' = OLD_PASSWORD('mypass');

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Twelve months ago, Stewart Butterfield posted in the Flickr forums saying: We’re continuing to look at private feeds, but it is not easy. Surprisingly, this is not something that seems to have occured to the people who designed RSS or the people who make the readers… I was just thinking today about a project I was wo...

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