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]
Unified login, CRM 2.0 take small steps forward
Blog This week Google and Plaxo have announced that they've brough together OpenID, OAuth and the Google Contacts API to enable much simpler sign in, with the ability to bring contacts with you when you join new networks too.
[March 16, 2009, 8:36]
OpenID and Facebook Connect: actually, does there need to be a winner?
Blog Not only were specific implementations of OpenID defended by Kevin Marks at Google -- and I concede that there are some that are much easier to use than others, whilst providing pretty rich functionality -- but I got some interesting direct contacts.
[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]
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 and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork in the road?
Blog Comment The misconception in this piece is that Friend Connect and the Open Stack are separate approaches, whereas Friend Connect is built on exactly the same Open Technologies - OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts and OpenSocial - as the much-praised Plaxo...
[February 13, 2009, 10:46]
OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers
News Glazer pointed to collaborative efforts on OpenID, OAuth, and Portable Contacts as examples of open web standards that are in various stages of adoption. OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as Google's effort to create a common...
[November 18, 2008, 17:17]
Google and Facebook join data-sharing alliance
News DataPortability, which is spearheaded by Chris Saad of start-up Faraday Media, hopes to bridge one social media site to another, using existing technologies like OpenID and RSS. Last week, popular blogger Robert Scoble — himself a DataPortability...
[January 9, 2008, 15:21]
Google Apps gives OpenID a boost
Blog Comment OpenID brings us closest to it, albeit still some distance away. It would be even more valuable if that same entity held your social graph information so you don't have to pester your contacts to join you on every social site you sign in to.
[July 30, 2009, 13:09]
The Genome for the true social web?
Blog I have watched initiatives like OpenID and OpenSocial closely for nearly a year in the hope they would help -- they probably can, but there are few successful implementations of them. An ability to easily take already established contacts with you...
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
Google previews Friend Connect
News Google Friend Connect employs several more or less standard networking technologies: OpenSocial as a foundation for richer web applications; OpenID to handle login chores; and OAuth to let users approve the grafting of new branches onto their...
[May 13, 2008, 16:53]
