Not So Relevant

‘But this isn’t a solution. Brady believes that in the next five years people will be required to identify themselves in some way at many sites. “I don’t know whether we do it with a credit card number, a driver’s license or passport, but I think making people responsible would raise the level of discourse.”‘

Disqus looks quite interesting. Maybe I should try it as well.

Chris Messina’s thoughts on the DataPortability group, the stack of technologies associated with it, and much more. Long but worth reading.

“Chris Messina and Will Norris, two leading community figures working on distributed social networking, identity and data portability, are joining the staff of OpenID provider Vidoop, the company will announce soon. Messina and Norris have been working on a project called DiSo, an umbrella group working to bring open source distributed social networking technologies to market. They will continue the same work, now as a part of Vidoop. The company provides user login functionality to both consumer and enterprise web publishers, using an innovative system based on image recognition to replace passwords.”

“One of the most interesting projects to me as of late has been DiSo. DiSo is short for Distributed Social Networking and is the work of several developers working out in the open, developing real solutions for real users. The mantra of the DiSo team has been one that I can relate to coming from the open source world; lead with code. This touches me right where my Open Source roots come from and I love it.”

“If we really want to see OpenID adoption take off, we should look less at throwing up a multiplicity of buttons to ease the flow and look more at how we can build the links between authentication, brand and communications.”

Which sites should support OpenID? Vote for them.