I am working on the next generation of the register/login process on Praized these days, it will be one of the major development effort we will pour ourselves into…
Here’s a quick roudup of recent news from around the blogosphere (it’s been buzzing a lot):
Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate?
Instead, I very much like Loic Le Meur’s concept of “centralized me“. I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service,” he wrote. I couldn’t agree more.
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
“Everyone is looking for ways to make their Web sites more social,” said Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer. “They can build their own social capabilities, but what will be more useful for them is building on top of a social system that people are already wedded to.”
Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web
But the real value goes to the social networks. These services make users begin to think about their identity in terms of their MySpace profile, or Facebook login as they use it to sign into their favorite services. That makes it even more likely the users will maintain their profiles on those services, add friends, etc.
Facebook Connect Will Be Game-Changing…and Dangerous
Do you see Facebook Connect as having a chance to win this all? Or will it be Google Friend Connect or OpenID? Or perhaps all three can co-exist peacefully?
A few of the “foundation” posts that are steering my reflexion
The Missing Profile Page a recent take on meme and the insightful comment from Julian Bond.
What do we mean by “Distributed Conversation” anyway?
Plaxo’s open letter to the Developer Community
OpenID + OAuth is the Final Nail in the Coffin of the WS-* vs. REST Discussion
A Proposal for Social Network Interoperability via OpenID
OpenAvatar - Combining OpenID and hCard
A few posts of my own, quoting and linking to many other insirations
Quoting Robert O’Brien on Web 3,0 - Web 1.0: Centralized Them. Web 2.0: Distributed Us. Web 3.0: Decentralized Me
Quoting Bob Lefsetz : We’re all networked
Google’s Stealth Social strategy : The Address Book
Blogs are the next social network
Internet Identity Workshop 2007b notes
The Social Network Operating System - SNOS
Web 2.0 Expo - Building Social Applications - my notes from Stowe Boyd’s session
You can also search for all my post tagged “identity”.
Next post : Why conversation is the killer app in identity or How socially constructed identities are much stronger (and useful)
Next next post : State of the Art in identity interop and what we plan to implement (and how).