Artur Bergman – Dir of Engineering, Wikia Inc/O’Reilly Radar
George Fletcher – Chief Architect, AOL LLC
Jason Levitt, Eep! Eep!
David Recordon – Open Platforms Tech Lead, Six Apart Ltd
Andy Smith, Google
Simon Willison, www.simonwillison.net
I will go on record and say I am a big fan of OpenID. I have been an OpenID user for a while now, and really see this growing, and growing. The panel for this session is a group of studs on this topic! Here are my tidbits…
The web NEEDS a single sign on, and many have tried and failed: Microsoft Passport, TypeKey, Facebook.
Basecamp, a 37signals product uses OpenID really well.
Simple Registration – OpenID can help with the registration process. Example: http://jyte.com/auth/signup
Great presentation on OpenID here.
Stuff on OpenID from Yahoo:
Yahoo became an OpenID provider in Jan 08
Yahoo is NOT a relying party
Yahoo only supports 2.0 and will never support 1.0
http://developer.yahoo.com/openid/loginbuttons.html
http://gallery.yahoo.com/openid
Wordpress PlugIN – http://code.google.com/p/diso/source/browse
http://developer.yahoo.com/openid
Simple Registration will play a big role in the future with OpenID.
Critical…. Pick an OpenID provider that will “not go away”. -How do you do that?
Site Launching tomorrow to help- http://www.clickpass.com/
Great session! Would of liked to hear more about the core security issues with OpenID.
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