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OpenID usability

05 October, 2008 - 68 words
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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PHPMyID rocks

06 December, 2007 - 81 words
30 minutes from ssh-ing into my server to having my own (decrufted) OpenID. Many thanks to PHPMyID, Sam Ruby and openidenabled.com.

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A stream of rubbish

04 March, 2007 - 224 words
Unlike Jeremy Keith, I couldn’t care less about giving people a nice web interface onto what I’ve been doing. I’d much rather have a view onto what people I know have been doing instead. A web view of what I’ve been doing is in fact probably the least interesting thing you could possibly do. He briefly mentioned portab...

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A stream of rubbish

04 March, 2007 - 224 words
Unlike Jeremy Keith, I couldn’t care less about giving people a nice web interface onto what I’ve been doing. I’d much rather have a view onto what people I know have been doing instead. A web view of what I’ve been doing is in fact probably the least interesting thing you could possibly do. He briefly mentioned portab...

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Consuming OpenID

28 February, 2007 - 135 words
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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Consuming OpenID

28 February, 2007 - 135 words
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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OpenID at University

23 February, 2007 - 233 words
Plenty of people have said in the last few days that there are more OpenID providers than there are OpenID-consuming services. I have some basic code which, if enabled, would grant everyone at the University I work at an OpenID. This isn’t the challenge though; where could we turn on OpenID consumption in

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OpenID at University

23 February, 2007 - 233 words
Plenty of people have said in the last few days that there are more OpenID providers than there are OpenID-consuming services. I have some basic code which, if enabled, would grant everyone at the University I work at an OpenID. This isn’t the challenge though; where could we turn on OpenID consumption in

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