Comments on: OpenID - the ultimate bubble preventer http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/ Technology, Computers, Web 2.0, Google, Microsoft, and just about anything else Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:27:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: dc http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-27298 dc Thu, 24 May 2007 17:28:27 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-27298 ironically but hopefully this site be OpenID enabled. ironically but hopefully this site be OpenID enabled.

]]> By: Huw http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-22249 Huw Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:01:07 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-22249 In terms of privacy and security, I had in mind APIs. For example, IMified currently takes your username and password for all the services which it plugs into. With OpenID, this wouldn't be necessary, because as I understand it you would only have to give IMified your OpenID address (assuming all services being used also utilised OpenID), and then, since the other services are already approved, IMified would never need to be given the user credentials. I might have got this wrong though. Critical mass - an interesting one. For OpenID to be successful, I think it is initially crucial that it has adoption from services rather than users. Which makes AIM's distribution of OpenID's useful, but not crucial. I initially got an OpenID because Zooomr required me to have one. Now I use it on other services. In terms of privacy and security, I had in mind APIs. For example, IMified currently takes your username and password for all the services which it plugs into. With OpenID, this wouldn’t be necessary, because as I understand it you would only have to give IMified your OpenID address (assuming all services being used also utilised OpenID), and then, since the other services are already approved, IMified would never need to be given the user credentials. I might have got this wrong though.

Critical mass - an interesting one. For OpenID to be successful, I think it is initially crucial that it has adoption from services rather than users. Which makes AIM’s distribution of OpenID’s useful, but not crucial. I initially got an OpenID because Zooomr required me to have one. Now I use it on other services.

]]> By: Zach Holt http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-22233 Zach Holt Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:07:59 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-22233 "Development" ends with a "t." ;) “Development” ends with a “t.” ;)

]]> By: Zach Holt http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-22232 Zach Holt Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:04:44 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2007/openid-the-ultimate-bubble-preventer/#comment-22232 I'm wondering why you include privacy and security in the list of OpenID's advantages. OpenID, as I understand it, is simply about establishing identity. Whether or not the OpenID provider is secure is outside the scope of the protocol. I'm implementing OpenID in a personal project, and I love it (once I got my head around it, it made my life as a developer extremely easy), but I don't think security and privacy are really in the list. Also, how/when do you forsesee the developmen of the requisite critical mass for OpenID to be broadly adopted? The fact that AOL gave every AIM user an OpenID doesn't seem to have sparked much adoption from web sites. Maybe I just haven't seen them? I’m wondering why you include privacy and security in the list of OpenID’s advantages. OpenID, as I understand it, is simply about establishing identity. Whether or not the OpenID provider is secure is outside the scope of the protocol.

I’m implementing OpenID in a personal project, and I love it (once I got my head around it, it made my life as a developer extremely easy), but I don’t think security and privacy are really in the list.

Also, how/when do you forsesee the developmen of the requisite critical mass for OpenID to be broadly adopted? The fact that AOL gave every AIM user an OpenID doesn’t seem to have sparked much adoption from web sites. Maybe I just haven’t seen them?

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