Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork in the road?
Blog Google announces enhancements to Google Friend Connect while also showing another way of remote login and bringing over contacts at an OpenID meeting hosted by Facebook. With this initiative underway, it was perhaps surprising then that at the...
[February 13, 2009, 10:50]
OpenID and Facebook Connect: actually, does there need to be a winner?
Blog Website owners have been watching the battle between the open standards based OpenID and proprietary Facebook Connect for over a year now, waiting for a winner. Like many, we've been holding off implementing either OpenID or Facebook Connect until...
[February 20, 2009, 15:08]
LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability
Blog Google and Plaxo recently showed a great way of connecting with your Plaxo contacts on potentially any other site with a community when they demonstrated a hybrid of OpenID, OAuth and Google Contacts at the OpenID Experience meeting hosted by...
[April 2, 2009, 14:02]
Unified login, CRM 2.0 take small steps forward
Blog OK, Google has quite a lot of e-mail addresses and Plaxo has 20 million users willing to volunteer more than that, but even combined the lack the cache of a network of 150 million people and 20% of the population logging in to check what is...
[March 16, 2009, 8:36]
Google Friend Connect increases spam risk
Blog Here's what it enables you to do: log in" to our website so that your identify can be seen to all others using GFC to log in; and you can see the identities of all those who have also logged in using the method friend" other GFC users on our...
[December 8, 2008, 7:23]
Google previews Friend Connect
News Programme manager Mussie Shore gave the central demonstration, sprucing up a guacamole lovers' site with the ability to let users join as members, comment, post photos, rate recipes and spread word of those activities to contacts on existing...
[May 13, 2008, 16:53]
The Genome for the true social web?
Blog Projects like Clickpass, Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect offered another glimmer of hope that our identities and connections may become portable, but have failed to gain a foothold. MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook may have opened our eyes...
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
